Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 25
The doctor prescribed one day that she should put her feet in a bran bath, and she followed his advice; but she drove to the theatre all the same, and sat with her feet in bran there.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: prescribe, put, follow, drive, sit · To what, where: feet, bran bath, advice, theatre, bran
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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 | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prescribed | nsubj |
| 3 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prescribed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prescribed | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feet | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 14 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bath | compound |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 followed | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 followed | nsubj |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prescribed | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 advice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 drove | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 drove | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drove | nsubj |
| 25 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prescribed | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 theatre | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 theatre | det |
| 28 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drove | obl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 same | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 same | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drove | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sat | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sat | cc |
| 34 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prescribed | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 feet | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 feet | nmod:poss |
| 37 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sat | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 bran | case |
| 39 | bran | bran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sat | obl |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 sat | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prescribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prescribe | past | the doctor | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | should | doctor | doctor's feet | a bran bath | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in bath=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | past | doctor | street's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | doctor | the theatre | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to theatre=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | bran; there | with doctor's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bran=Location |
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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