Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 118

Then the boy wandered home silently, and seated himself on the table, and learned to sew gloves.

Who acts: boy · What happens: wander, seat, learn, sew · To what, where: boy, table, gloves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 wandered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
6	silently	silently	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seated	cc
9	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 seated	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 learned	cc
16	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sew	mark
18	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 learned	xcomp
19	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sew	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the boy			then	home, silently property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seat	past	the boy not said here	boy	the table			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	learn	past	the boy not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sew	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	gloves				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Product

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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