Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 194
He remembered a story told of her, that on one occasion, when she was carrying a basket full of wine and provisions, her husband, who had watched her footsteps, stepped forward and asked her angrily what she carried in her basket, whereupon, with fear and trembling, she answered, "Roses, which I have plucked from the garden."
Who acts: weather, Lady, husband · What happens: remember, tell, carry, watch, step forward, ask · To what, where: story, one occasion, basket, footsteps, Lady, Roses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, Lady, husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | obj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 story | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 remembered | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 occasion | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 occasion | nummod |
| 12 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carrying | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 carrying | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carrying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carrying | aux |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remembered | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 basket | det |
| 19 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 basket | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 provisions | cc |
| 24 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wine | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 husband | punct |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 basket | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 watched | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 watched | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 watched | aux |
| 31 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 husband | acl:relcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 footsteps | nmod:poss |
| 33 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 watched | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 stepped | punct |
| 35 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 36 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 35 stepped | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 asked | cc |
| 38 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stepped | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 asked | iobj |
| 40 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 41 what | advmod |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 asked | obj |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 carried | nsubj |
| 43 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 what | acl:relcl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 basket | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 basket | nmod:poss |
| 46 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 whereupon | punct |
| 48 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 carried | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 fear | punct |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 fear | case |
| 51 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 carried | parataxis |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 trembling | cc |
| 53 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 fear | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 answered | punct |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 answered | nsubj |
| 56 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 Roses | punct |
| 58 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 59 Roses | punct |
| 59 | Roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 answered | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 plucked | punct |
| 61 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 64 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 62 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 64 plucked | nsubj |
| 63 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 plucked | aux |
| 64 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 59 Roses | acl:relcl |
| 65 | from | from | ADP | _ | 67 garden | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 garden | det |
| 67 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 plucked | obl |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
| 69 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | weather | a story | one occasion | that obl | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | a story not said here | of Lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · progressive | Lady | a basket and Lady's husband | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | watch | past · perfect | Lady's husband | Lady's footsteps | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=Theme | ||||
| 5 | step forward | past | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Lady | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | carry | past | Lady | Lady's basket | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in basket=Location | ||||
| 8 | tremble | gerund | Lady not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | answer speech: assert | past | Lady | Roses | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | pluck in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Roses | the garden | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from garden=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: «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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