Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 16

The old poet seated himself beside his hearth, and took the little fellow on his lap; he squeezed the water out of his dripping hair, warmed his hands between his own, and boiled for him some sweet wine.

Who acts: old poet, body · What happens: seat, take, squeeze, drip, warm, boil · To what, where: body, hearth, little fellow, lap, water, dripping hair

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old poet, body), 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 poet	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poet	amod
3	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	nsubj
4	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 seated	obj
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 hearth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hearth	nmod:poss
8	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 lap	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lap	nmod:poss
17	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 squeezed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 squeezed	nsubj
20	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 squeezed	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	27 hair	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 hair	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
26	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 squeezed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 warmed	punct
29	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 squeezed	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 warmed	obj
32	between	between	ADP	_	34 own	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 own	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 warmed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 boiled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 boiled	cc
37	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 squeezed	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 boiled	obl
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 wine	det
41	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 wine	amod
42	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 boiled	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seat	past	the old poet	body	body's hearth		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2	take	past	the old poet not said here	the little fellow	body's lap		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme on lap=Destination
3	squeeze	past	body	the water	body's dripping hair		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out hair=Trajectory
4	drip	gerund					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	warm	past	body not said here	body's hands		between body's own	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	boil	participle		some sweet wine		for body	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wine=Patient for he=Beneficiary

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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