Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 59

On Sundays the young wife came down early, plucked a handful of the most beautiful roses, and put them into a glass of water, which she placed upon the cupboard.

Who acts: young wife, water · What happens: come down, pluck, put, place · To what, where: handful, birds, glass, cupboard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wife, 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 Sundays	case
2	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wife	amod
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plucked	punct
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 handful	det
12	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plucked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 roses	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roses	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 beautiful	advmod
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 roses	amod
17	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 handful	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 put	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 glass	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 glass	det
24	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glass	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 placed	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 placed	nsubj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	nsubj
30	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 water	acl:relcl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 cupboard	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cupboard	det
33	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the young wife			sunday	down, early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pluck	past	the young wife not said here	a handful of the beautiful roses				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient
3	put	infinitive	the young wife not said here	birds = bird	a glass of water			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	place	past	water		the cupboard			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon cupboard=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: «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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