Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 219

He betook himself to the marsh, and collected a few little bubbles of stagnant water.

Who acts: God · What happens: betake, collect · To what, where: God, few little bubbles

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 (God), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 betook	nsubj
2	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 betook	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 marsh	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marsh	det
6	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 betook	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 collected	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 collected	cc
9	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 betook	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bubbles	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bubbles	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bubbles	amod
13	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 collected	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	stagnant	stagnant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bubbles	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	betake	past	God	God				to the marsh	tree rules
2	collect	past		a few little bubbles of stagnant water					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme

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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