Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 81

He laid it carefully between the door and the door-post, and then shut the door so that the nut cracked directly.

Who acts: Ib, nut · What happens: lay, shut, crack · To what, where: pocket, door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, nut), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obj
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 laid	advmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 post	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 post	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 post	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 door	punct
12	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shut	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shut	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 shut	advmod
16	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shut	obj
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 cracked	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nut	det
22	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cracked	nsubj
23	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shut	advcl
24	directly	directly	ADV	_	23 cracked	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Ib	pocket	the door and the door post		carefully property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme between door=Destination
2	shut	infinitive		the door		then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	crack	past	the nut				directly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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