Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 184

Early in the afternoon--it was already dark in the house--she laid wood and turf on the hearth, and then she sat down to darn her stockings, for there was no one to do it for her.

Who acts: hood, vitriol, one · What happens: be, lay, sit down, darn, do · To what, where: house, wood, hearth, stockings, hood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hood, vitriol, one), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 dark	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 afternoon	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 afternoon	det
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Early	obl
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Early	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dark	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dark	cop
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 dark	advmod
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dark	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dark	conj
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turf	cc
18	turf	turf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 hearth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hearth	det
21	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 sat	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dark	advcl
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 sat	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 darn	mark
29	darn	darn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sat	advcl
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 stockings	nmod:poss
31	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 darn	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 was	mark
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sat	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 one	acl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 her	case
42	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	hood		the house		dark, early property	tree rules
2	lay	past	vitriol	wood and turf	the hearth			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on hearth=Destination
3	sit down	past	vitriol			then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	darn	to-infinitive	vitriol not said here	vitriol's stockings				tree rules
5	be	past	no one		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive	no one not said here	hood			for vitriol	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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