Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 53

They arranged couches to lie on as well as they could, and then the men seated themselves by the fire, took out their pipes, and began to smoke.

Who acts: waters, men · What happens: arrange, lie on, seat, take out, begin, smoke · To what, where: couches, waters, pipes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters, men), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arranged	nsubj
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	couches	couch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arranged	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lie	mark
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arranged	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 lie	compound:prt
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 lie	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 could	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 could	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 well	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seated	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seated	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 seated	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 seated	nsubj
17	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arranged	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 seated	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arranged	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 took	compound:prt
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 pipes	nmod:poss
26	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 smoke	mark
31	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	waters = water	couches			tree rules
2	lie on	to-infinitive	waters = water not said here			well property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seat	past	the men	waters = water	then	by the fire	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
4	take out	past		waters's pipes			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
5	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	smoke	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «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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