Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 105

That he was ill, she comprehended directly; so she brought him a pitcher of water, which tasted certainly pretty strong of the sea, although it had been fetched from the well.

Who acts: That, woman, pitcher · What happens: be, comprehend, bring, taste, fetch · To what, where: pitcher, connection, well

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, woman, pitcher), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ill	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ill	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 comprehended	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comprehended	nsubj
7	comprehended	comprehend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	conj
8	directly	directly	ADV	_	7 comprehended	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pitcher	det
15	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pitcher	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tasted	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 tasted	nsubj
20	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pitcher	acl:relcl
21	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 strong	advmod
22	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	23 strong	advmod
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tasted	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strong	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fetched	punct
28	although	although	SCONJ	_	32 fetched	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fetched	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fetched	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 fetched	aux:pass
32	fetched	fetch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 brought	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 well	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 well	det
35	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fetched	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	That				ill property	tree rules
2	comprehend	past	woman				directly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	bring	past	woman	a pitcher of water	connection			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination pitcher=Theme
4	taste	past	a pitcher of water				strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	fetch	past · perfect · passive		pitcher		the well		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from well=Source

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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