Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 48

At night, all the boxes were placed against the doors, and one of the travellers watched while the others slept.

Who acts: one, others · What happens: place, watch, sleep · To what, where: boxes, doors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 boxes	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boxes	det
6	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 placed	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	aux:pass
8	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	against	against	ADP	_	11 doors	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doors	det
11	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 watched	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 watched	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 travellers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 travellers	det
17	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	conj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 slept	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 slept	nsubj
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 watched	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past · passive		all boxes	the doors	night	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against door=Destination
2	watch	past	one of the travellers				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	past	the others				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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