Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 57

He had been there the day before to say farewell, and his mother was now very busy packing up various things for him to take with him on his voyage.

Who acts: sailor, mother · What happens: be, say, pack up, take, voyage · To what, where: various things, voyage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sailor, mother), 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	4 there	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 there	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	obl:unmarked
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 day	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
10	farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	9 say	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 busy	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 busy	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 busy	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 busy	cop
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 busy	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 busy	advmod
18	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 say	ccomp
19	packing	pack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 busy	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 packing	compound:prt
21	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 packing	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 packing	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 packing	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 voyage	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 voyage	nmod:poss
31	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	sailor			day	there property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	sailor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	sailor's mother			now	busy property	tree rules
4	pack up	gerund	sailor's mother not said here	various things			for sailor	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Destination
5	take	to-infinitive	sailor's mother not said here		sailor's voyage		with sailor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on voyage=Destination
6	voyage		sailor					nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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