Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 130
And the young wife wiped the soldier, first with a green leaf, and then with her fine pocket-handkerchief, that smelt of such beautiful perfume.
Who acts: young wife · What happens: wipe · To what, where: soldier
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wiped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wife | amod |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | nsubj |
| 5 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 wiped | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leaf | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 leaf | det |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leaf | amod |
| 13 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 handkerchief | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 handkerchief | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 handkerchief | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 handkerchief | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 handkerchief | amod |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handkerchief | compound | ||
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 pocket | punct |
| 22 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 smelt | punct |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 smelt | det |
| 25 | smelt | smelt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 handkerchief | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 perfume | case |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 perfume | amod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 perfume | amod |
| 29 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 smelt | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | past | the young wife | the soldier | with a green leaf; first property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent soldier=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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