Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 36

So the bed of the sick girl was drawn nearer to the window, that she might see the budding plant; and the mother went out to her work.

Who acts: girl, mother · What happens: draw, see, go out, work · To what, where: bed, budding plant

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 drawn	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 girl	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bed	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drawn	aux:pass
9	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 drawn	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 window	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nearer	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drawn	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 plant	det
20	budding	budding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plant	compound
21	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mother	det
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drawn	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 work	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 work	nmod:poss
30	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past · passive		the bed of the sick girl	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	might	girl	the budding plant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plant=Stimulus
3	go out	past	the mother		to mother's work; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work		mother			nom work «act intransitive»: 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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