Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 29
The sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread were put into the basket by the furrier's daughter herself, for she packed it.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: put, pack · To what, where: sweetest fresh butter, basket
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 4 butter | det |
| 2 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 butter | amod |
| 3 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 butter | amod |
| 4 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bread | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bread | det |
| 7 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 bread | amod |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 butter | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basket | det |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 furrier | det |
| 16 | furrier | furrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 furrier | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 packed | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 packed | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 packed | nsubj |
| 23 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 packed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the furrier's daughter | the sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread | the basket | daughter obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal | ||
| 2 | pack | past | daughter | basket | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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