Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 83

Some sit on the banisters of steep stairs, others on the outer rails of lofty towers, or spring like squirrels along the ridges of the mountains.

Who acts: Some · What happens: sit · To what, where: banisters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 sit	nsubj
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 banisters	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 banisters	det
5	banisters	banister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
7	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stairs	amod
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 banisters	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 others	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 banisters	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 rails	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rails	det
13	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rails	amod
14	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 others	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 towers	case
16	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 towers	amod
17	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rails	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spring	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 spring	cc
20	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 squirrels	case
22	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spring	nmod
23	along	along	ADP	_	25 ridges	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ridges	det
25	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 mountains	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountains	det
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ridges	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Some			the banisters of steep stairs others on the outer rails of lofty towers	spring	along the ridges of the mountains	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on banister=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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