Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 14

But the old grandfather remained sitting at his work and carving away at the last part of it, which was the Danish arms.

Who acts: old grandfather, last part, grandfather · What happens: remain, sit, carve away, be, work · To what, where: work, last part, Danish arms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandfather, last part, grandfather), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 remained	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandfather	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandfather	amod
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remained	nsubj
5	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 remained	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sitting	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carving	cc
11	carving	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sitting	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 carving	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 part	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 part	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 part	amod
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carving	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 part	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arms	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 arms	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arms	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arms	det
23	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 arms	amod
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 part	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the old grandfather				tree rules
2	sit	gerund	the old grandfather not said here		grandfather's work		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location
3	carve away	gerund	the old grandfather not said here		the last part of work and the Danish arms	away property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the last part of work and the Danish arms	the Danish arms			tree rules
5	work		grandfather				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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