Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 11

She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.

Who acts: water · What happens: lay, put · To what, where: twenty mattresses, twenty feather beds, mattresses

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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	3 laid	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 laid	advmod
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mattresses	nummod
5	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laid	obj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mattresses	flat
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	nmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 peas	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peas	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 peas	nummod
12	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	conj
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 beds	nummod
17	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beds	compound
18	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 mattresses	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mattresses	det
21	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	water	twenty mattresses			then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattress=Result
2	put	infinitive	water not said here	twenty feather beds		the mattresses			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme over mattress=Destination

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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