Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 35

When she heard the farmer coming she was frightened, and begged the sexton to hide himself in a large empty chest that stood in the room.

Who acts: best, farmer, large empty chest · What happens: hear, come, frighten, beg, hide, stand · To what, where: farmer, best, sexton, large empty chest, room

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 (best, farmer, large empty chest), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 begged	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 farmer	acl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 frightened	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	aux:pass
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 coming	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 begged	cc
12	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sexton	det
14	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 begged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hide	mark
16	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 begged	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hide	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 chest	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 chest	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chest	amod
21	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 chest	amod
22	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hide	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 chest	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 room	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 room	det
27	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	best = good	the farmer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the farmer not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive		best = good		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	beg speech: request	past		the sexton		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent sexton=Recipient
5	hide	to-infinitive		farmer	a large empty chest	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in chest=Location
6	stand	past	a large empty chest		the room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location

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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