Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 203

Mother Soren stood in front of the house, filling a brass pot with snow, which she was going to put on the fire to get drinking water.

Who acts: Mother, brass pot · What happens: stand, fill, go, put, get, drink · To what, where: front, brass pot, fire, drinking water

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 (Mother, brass pot), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
2	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 filling	punct
10	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
12	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	compound
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 filling	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 going	nsubj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 pot	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 put	mark
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 put	advcl
28	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 water	amod
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Mother		front of the house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
2	fill	gerund	Mother not said here	a brass pot		with snow	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with snow=Instrument
3	go	past · progressive	a brass pot				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put	to-infinitive	a brass pot not said here		the fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on fire=Destination
5	get	to-infinitive	a brass pot not said here	drinking water			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
6	drink	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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