Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 51

But the little boy in bed saw plainly the old castle of Kronenburg, and the Sound of Elsinore, and Holger Danske, far down in the cellar, with his beard rooted to the table, and dreaming of everything that was passing above him.

Who acts: little boy · What happens: see, root, dream, pass · To what, where: old castle, beard

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 (little boy), 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	_	7 saw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 castle	amod
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Kronenburg	case
13	Kronenburg	Kronenburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 castle	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sound	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Sound	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sound	det
17	Sound	Sound	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Elsinore	case
19	Elsinore	Elsinore	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sound	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 down	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 down	cc
22	Holger	Holger	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 down	nsubj
23	Danske	Danske	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Holger	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 down	punct
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 down	advmod
26	down	down	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 down	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beard	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 beard	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beard	nmod:poss
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	parataxis
34	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 beard	acl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 table	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 table	det
37	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rooted	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 dreaming	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 dreaming	cc
40	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 everything	case
42	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	40 dreaming	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 passing	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 passing	aux
45	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 everything	acl:relcl
46	above	above	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 passing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the little boy in bed	the old castle of Kronenburg	the Sound of Elsinore obl; down, plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
2	root	participle		Holger's beard not said here	to the table	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	dream	gerund	the little boy in bed not said here		of everything	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	pass	past · progressive			above Holger	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme above he=Location

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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