Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 87

The fire-stool will be as warm as a stove, and I shall then bring a story book out of my pocket, and read aloud till all the children in the room are quite quiet.

Who acts: fire stool, I, children · What happens: be, bring, read · To what, where: story book, pocket

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire stool, I, children), 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	4 stool	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stool	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fire	punct
4	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warm	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 warm	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 warm	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 warm	advmod
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 stove	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stove	det
11	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warm	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bring	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bring	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bring	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bring	advmod
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warm	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 book	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 book	compound
20	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pocket	nmod:poss
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 read	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 read	cc
27	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 warm	parataxis
28	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	27 read	advmod
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 quiet	mark
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 children	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 children	det
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 quiet	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 room	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 room	det
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 children	nmod
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 quiet	cop
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 quiet	advmod
38	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 read	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	the fire stool				as a stove; warm property	tree rules
2	bring	shall	I	a story book	my pocket	then		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent book=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
3	read	infinitive					aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	all children in the room				quiet property	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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