Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 21

The bamboo cane stood by, looking stiff and proud: he was vain of his brass ferrule and silver top, and on the sofa lay two worked cushions, pretty but stupid.

Who acts: bamboo cane, two · What happens: stand by, look, be, lie, work · To what, where: bamboo cane, sofa, cushions

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bamboo cane, two), 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 cane	det
2	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cane	compound
3	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vain	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cane	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 looking	punct
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cane	conj
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looking	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 proud	cc
10	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stiff	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 vain	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 vain	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vain	cop
14	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 ferrule	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ferrule	nmod:poss
17	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ferrule	compound
18	ferrule	ferrule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vain	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 top	cc
20	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 top	compound
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ferrule	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 sofa	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sofa	det
26	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 vain	parataxis
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 worked	nsubj
29	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lay	ccomp
30	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 worked	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pretty	punct
32	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	29 worked	advmod
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 stupid	cc
34	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pretty	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand by	participle		the bamboo cane not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund	the bamboo cane not said here			stiff property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	the bamboo cane			of whisper's brass ferrule and silver top; vain property	tree rules
4	lie	past			the sofa		tree rules
5	work	past	two	cushions		pretty property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent cushion=Material

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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