Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 139

She pours water out of the teapot over a piece of stuff which she holds in her hand; it is the bodice; cleanliness is a fine thing.

Who acts: garret, stuff, hand, cleanliness · What happens: pour, hold, be · To what, where: water, teapot, hand, bodice, fine thing

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garret, stuff, hand, cleanliness), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pours	nsubj
2	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 teapot	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 teapot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teapot	det
7	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	obl
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 piece	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 piece	det
10	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teapot	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 stuff	case
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 piece	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 holds	nsubj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 holds	nsubj
15	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stuff	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 holds	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bodice	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bodice	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bodice	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bodice	det
23	bodice	bodice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pours	parataxis
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 thing	punct
25	cleanliness	cleanliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 thing	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 thing	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thing	det
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thing	amod
29	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bodice	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pour	present	garret	water	the teapot over a piece of stuff	vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme out teapot=Initial_Location
2	hold	present	stuff		garret's hand	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
3	is a	present	hand	the bodice and a fine thing		tree rules
4	is a	present	cleanliness	a fine thing		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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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