Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 24

Four of them were asleep; the fifth was thinking of his new summer coat, which would suit him admirably; the sixth turned to the coachman and asked him if there were anything remarkable connected with yonder heap of stones. '

Who acts: Four, fifth, new summer coat, sixth · What happens: be, think, suit, turn, ask, connect · To what, where: fifth, coachman, anything

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Four, fifth, new summer coat, sixth), 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	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 asleep	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Four	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 thinking	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fifth	det
8	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thinking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thinking	aux
10	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asleep	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 coat	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
14	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coat	compound
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thinking	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 suit	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 suit	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 suit	aux
19	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 coat	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 suit	obj
21	admirably	admirably	ADV	_	19 suit	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sixth	det
24	sixth	sixth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 coachman	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 coachman	det
28	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 were	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 were	expl
34	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 asked	ccomp
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 were	obj
36	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 anything	amod
37	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 anything	acl
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 heap	case
39	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	40 heap	advmod
40	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 connected	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 stones	case
42	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 heap	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Four of people				asleep property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	the fifth					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	suit	would	fifth's new summer coat	fifth			admirably property	tree rules
4	turn	past	the sixth			the coachman		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to coachman=Trajectory
5	ask speech: ask	past	the sixth not said here		fifth			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	be a condition, not said to happen	past		anything		there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme
7	connect	participle					with heap of stones	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with heap=Co-Patient

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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