Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 4

The poor boy sat there with his sister on his lap, and sung to her all the songs he knew, and now and then he looked into his geography lesson that lay open before him.

Who acts: poor boy, boy, geography lesson · What happens: sit, sing, know, look, lie · To what, where: lap, Gustava, songs

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 (poor boy, boy, geography lesson), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sister	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sister	nmod:poss
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 lap	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lap	nmod:poss
11	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sung	cc
14	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sung	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 songs	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 songs	det
19	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sung	conj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 songs	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 looked	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 looked	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 lesson	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lesson	nmod:poss
31	geography	geography	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lesson	compound
32	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 lay	nsubj
34	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lesson	acl:relcl
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lay	xcomp
36	before	before	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lay	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the poor boy			boy's lap; there		with boy's sister	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location
2	sing speech: express	participle			Gustava				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	know	past	boy	all songs not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
4	look	past	boy				now; then	into boy's geography lesson	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into lesson=Theme
5	lie	past	boy's geography lesson				before boy	open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before 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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