Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 191

It was still night, and her father slept; she pressed a kiss upon his hand, and then took her distaff and fastened the end of the thread to her father's house.

Who acts: resolution, father, page · What happens: be, sleep, press, take, fasten · To what, where: night, kiss, distaff, end

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (resolution, father, page), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 night	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 night	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 night	advmod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 night	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 pressed	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pressed	nsubj
12	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 kiss	det
14	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pressed	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kiss	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 took	advmod
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pressed	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 distaff	nmod:poss
23	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fastened	cc
25	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fastened	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 thread	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thread	det
30	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 house	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 house	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 father	case
35	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fastened	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	resolution	night	still		tree rules
2	sleep	past	page's father				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	press	past	page	a kiss		upon father's hand	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
4	take	past	page not said here	page's distaff	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distaff=Theme
5	fasten	past	page not said here	the end of the thread		to page's father's house	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent end=Patient to house=Co-Patient

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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