Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 115

There he determined that she should lie the whole night, while he seated himself in a chair in a corner of the room as he had often done before.

Who acts: Claus, grandmother · What happens: determine, lie, seat, do · To what, where: Claus, chair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus, grandmother), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 determined	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 determined	nsubj
3	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 lie	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lie	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	aux
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 determined	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 night	amod
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seated	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 seated	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seated	nsubj
14	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 seated	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chair	det
18	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seated	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chair	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 corner	nmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 done	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 done	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 done	aux
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
29	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 seated	advcl
30	before	before	ADV	_	29 done	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	Claus		there			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	should	grandmother			night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seat	past	Claus	Claus	a chair in a corner of the room			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in chair=Location
4	do	past · perfect	Claus				before, often property	vn act-114-1 «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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