Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 28
And again little Tuk lay in his bed, scarcely knowing whether he was dreaming or not, for some one stood by him.
Who acts: little Tuk, Tuk · What happens: lie, know, dream, stand · To what, where: bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Tuk, Tuk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Tuk | amod |
| 4 | Tuk | Tuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 10 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 11 knowing | advmod |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lay | advcl |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 dreaming | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dreaming | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dreaming | aux |
| 15 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 knowing | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 not | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dreaming | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | little Tuk | Tuk's bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | little Tuk not said here | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dream | past · progressive | Tuk | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | little Tuk not said here | for some one; by Tuk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=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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