Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 2

After dinner, the miller placed himself in the arm-chair, smoked his pipe, and had a little nap.

Who acts: miller · What happens: place, smoke, have · To what, where: miller, arm chair, pipe, little nap

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 dinner	case
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dinner	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 placed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 chair	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chair	det
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chair	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 arm	punct
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smoked	punct
14	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pipe	nmod:poss
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smoked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nap	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nap	amod
22	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past	the miller	miller	the arm chair	after dinner	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in chair=Destination
2	smoke	past	the miller not said here	miller's pipe			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
3	have	past	the miller not said here	a little nap			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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