Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 49

The two lazy ones were carried quite as far, for they also were eaten by pigeons, so they were at least of some use; but the fourth, who wanted to reach the sun, fell into a sink and lay there in the dirty water for days and weeks, till he had swelled to a great size.

Who acts: pigeons, peas, fourth, world · What happens: carry, eat, be, want, reach, fall · To what, where: two lazy ones, peas, least, sun, sink, dirty water

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 (pigeons, peas, fourth, world), 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 ones	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
3	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carried	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	aux:pass
6	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 carried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eaten	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 eaten	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eaten	nsubj
13	also	also	ADV	_	15 eaten	advmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 eaten	aux:pass
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 carried	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 pigeons	case
17	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	26 use	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 use	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 use	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	case
23	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 use	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 use	case
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 use	nsubj
26	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 wanted	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fourth	det
30	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 wanted	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanted	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carried	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 reach	mark
35	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sun	det
37	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reach	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 fell	punct
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wanted	parataxis
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 sink	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 sink	det
42	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fell	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lay	cc
44	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fell	conj
45	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 lay	advmod
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 water	det
48	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 water	amod
49	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lay	obl
50	for	for	ADP	_	51 days	case
51	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 lay	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 weeks	cc
53	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 days	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 swelled	punct
55	till	till	SCONJ	_	58 swelled	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 swelled	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 swelled	aux
58	swelled	swell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 lay	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	62 size	case
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 size	det
61	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 size	amod
62	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 swelled	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive		the two lazy ones			far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	eat	past · passive	pigeons	peas = pea				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	is	past	peas = pea		least		use property	tree rules
4	want	past	the fourth					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fourth not said here	the sun				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sun=Theme
6	fall	past					into a sink result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sink=Result
7	lie	past			the dirty water; there	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
8	swell	past · perfect	world				to a great size	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/49/