Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 129

You have slept soundly while I was arguing with the old man whether it was a story or a fairy tale!"

Who acts: You, I, cold · What happens: sleep, argue, be · To what, where: story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, cold), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 slept	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	aux
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	3 slept	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 arguing	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 arguing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arguing	aux
8	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 slept	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arguing	obl
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 story	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 story	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 story	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arguing	advcl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 tale	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tale	det
20	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tale	amod
21	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	conj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 tale	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · perfect	You		soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	argue speech: disagree	past · progressive	I		with the old man	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
3	is a	past	cold	a story or a fairy tale		tree rules

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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