Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 22

He was quite civil about it; drew in his claws, and took his afternoon nap, so that the two were left to sit and wag their tails as much as they pleased.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, draw, take, leave, sit, wag · To what, where: claws, afternoon nap, two, tails

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	4 civil	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 civil	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 civil	advmod
4	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 civil	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 drew	punct
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 civil	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 claws	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drew	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 nap	nmod:poss
16	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nap	compound
17	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 left	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 left	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 two	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 left	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux:pass
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 took	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sit	mark
26	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 left	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wag	cc
28	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sit	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tails	nmod:poss
30	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wag	obj
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wag	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 pleased	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pleased	nsubj
35	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 much	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 civil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			about engagement; civil property	tree rules
2	draw	past			man's claws		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in claw=Destination
3	take	past		man's afternoon nap			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme
4	leave	past · passive		the two			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	sit	to-infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wag	infinitive		claws's tails			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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