Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 3

So his mother undressed him, put him to bed, and had the tea-pot brought in, to make him a good cup of Elderflower tea.

Who acts: mother · What happens: undress, put, have, bring in, make · To what, where: boy, tea pot, good cup

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	So	so	ADV	_	4 undressed	advmod
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 undressed	nsubj
4	undressed	undress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 undressed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undressed	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 undressed	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pot	det
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pot	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 tea	punct
17	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pot	acl
19	in	in	ADV	_	18 brought	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 make	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cup	det
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cup	amod
26	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 tea	case
28	Elderflower	Elderflower	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 tea	compound
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cup	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	undress	past	boy's mother	boy			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	put	infinitive	boy's mother not said here		boy	to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	have	past		the tea pot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Patient
4	bring in	participle		the tea pot not said here			vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive		a good cup of Elderflower tea	boy		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary cup=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: «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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