Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 21

The beautiful daughter of the imperial palace wept over the worthless broken pitcher; with her bare feet she stood there weeping; and dared not pull the string, the bell-rope of the imperial palace!"

Who acts: beautiful daughter, daughter · What happens: weep, stand, pull · To what, where: worthless broken pitcher, string

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful daughter, daughter), 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 daughter	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 daughter	amod
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
6	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 palace	amod
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	nmod
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	13 pitcher	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pitcher	det
11	worthless	worthless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pitcher	amod
12	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pitcher	amod
13	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wept	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 feet	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
17	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	conj
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 stood	advmod
22	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stood	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pull	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pull	cc
25	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pull	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 dared	advmod
27	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 wept	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 string	det
29	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pull	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rope	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rope	det
32	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rope	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 bell	punct
34	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pull	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 palace	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 palace	det
37	imperial	imperial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 palace	amod
38	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rope	nmod
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 pull	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the beautiful daughter of the imperial palace		the worthless broken pitcher		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	daughter		there	with daughter's bare feet	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	weep	gerund	daughter not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull	past		the string		the bell rope of the imperial palace obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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