Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 25

One sits proudly apart, like a king; others sit together in a group; yonder, half of them are asleep; and when the steam dragon stops, they will get out and go their way.

Who acts: One, others, half, steam dragon · What happens: sit, be, stop, get out, go · To what, where: group, way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, others, half, steam dragon), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	4 apart	advmod
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 sits	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 king	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 king	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 sit	punct
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sit	nsubj
11	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sits	parataxis
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 sit	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 group	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 group	det
15	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 asleep	punct
17	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	23 asleep	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 yonder	punct
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 asleep	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 half	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 asleep	cop
23	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sit	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 get	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 get	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 stops	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dragon	det
28	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dragon	compound
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stops	nsubj
30	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 get	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stops	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sit	parataxis
35	out	out	ADV	_	34 get	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 go	cc
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 get	conj
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 way	nmod:poss
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	One			like a king; apart property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	present	others		a group	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location
3	is	present	half of others			asleep, yonder property	tree rules
4	stop	present	the steam dragon				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	get out	future	others = other			out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	infinitive	others = other not said here	others's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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