Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 32
Upon this shelf Rudy's uncle laid himself down, and crept forward.
Who acts: uncle · What happens: lay down, creep · To what, where: uncle, shelf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 shelf | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 shelf | det |
| 3 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 4 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Rudy | case |
| 6 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | nsubj |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 laid | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crept | cc |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laid | conj |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | Rudy's uncle | uncle | this shelf | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon shelf=Destination | |||
| 2 | creep | past | Rudy's uncle not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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