Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 20

And his mother laughed, put some Elder-flowers in the tea-pot, and poured boiling water upon them.

Who acts: mother · What happens: laugh, put, pour, boil · To what, where: Elder flowers, tea pot, boiling water

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laughed	advcl
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 flowers	det
8	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 flowers	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Elder	punct
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 pot	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pot	det
13	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pot	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 tea	punct
15	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 poured	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poured	cc
18	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	parataxis
19	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 water	amod
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poured	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 poured	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	tap's mother				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	infinitive	tap's mother not said here	some Elder flowers	the tea pot		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in pot=Destination
3	pour	past		boiling water		upon flowers = flower	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	boil	gerund					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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