Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 195

Then he tore away the cloth which covered the basket, and what could equal the surprise of the pious woman, to find that by a miracle, everything in her basket--the wine, the bread--had all been changed into roses.

Who acts: weather, cloth · What happens: tore away, cover, equal, find, change, surprise · To what, where: cloth, basket, surprise, that, miracle, roses

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, cloth), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tore	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tore	nsubj
3	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 tore	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 covered	nsubj
8	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloth	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 basket	det
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 equal	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 equal	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 equal	obj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 equal	aux
15	equal	equal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tore	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 surprise	det
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 equal	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 woman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 surprise	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 find	mark
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 equal	conj
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 find	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 miracle	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 miracle	det
28	miracle	miracle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 everything	punct
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 miracle	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 basket	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 basket	nmod:poss
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 everything	nmod
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 wine	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wine	det
36	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 basket	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bread	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 bread	det
39	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 basket	conj
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 changed	punct
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 changed	aux
42	all	all	ADV	_	44 changed	advmod
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 changed	aux:pass
44	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 miracle	acl
45	into	into	ADP	_	46 roses	case
46	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 changed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tore away	past	weather	the cloth	then	away property	tree rules
2	cover	past	the cloth	the basket			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme basket=Destination
3	equal	could		the surprise of the pious woman			tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		that		by a miracle	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
5	change	past · perfect · passive		a miracle not said here		into roses result; all property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into rose=Result
6	surprise			the pious woman			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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