Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 24

She stirred the bowl carefully with a slender lacquered stick, very slowly, for she, too, was lost in thought.

Who acts: light · What happens: stir, lacquer, lose · To what, where: bowl, light, thought

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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	2 stirred	nsubj
2	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stirred	obj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 stirred	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 stick	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
8	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stick	amod
9	lacquered	lacquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stick	amod
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stirred	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slowly	punct
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 slowly	advmod
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 stirred	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lost	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 lost	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lost	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 she	punct
18	too	too	ADV	_	21 lost	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 too	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lost	aux:pass
21	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stirred	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 thought	case
23	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stirred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stir	past	light	the bowl		with a slender lacquered stick; carefully, slowly property	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient with stick=Co-Patient
2	lacquer	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past · passive		light	thought		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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