Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 65
Marie was accosted in hard words; but she had a bedroom given her, and got her beer soup of a morning; but the evil part of her father's nature was aroused against her, and she was not used to that.
Who acts: Grubbe, bedroom · What happens: accost, have, give, get, arouse, not use · To what, where: Marie, hard words, bedroom, Grubbe, beer soup, evil part
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 (Grubbe, bedroom), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accosted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accosted | aux:pass |
| 3 | accosted | accost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accosted | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accosted | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bedroom | det |
| 12 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bedroom | acl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 soup | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soup | compound |
| 20 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 morning | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 morning | det |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soup | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 aroused | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 aroused | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 part | det |
| 27 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 part | amod |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nature | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nature | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 aroused | aux:pass |
| 35 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 accosted | parataxis |
| 36 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 aroused | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 used | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 used | cc |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 used | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 used | aux:pass |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 used | advmod |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 aroused | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 that | case |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 used | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accosted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accost | past · passive | Marie | hard words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Grubbe | a bedroom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedroom=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | a bedroom not said here | Grubbe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Grubbe not said here | Grubbe's beer soup of a morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soup=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | arouse | past · passive | the evil part of Grubbe's father's nature | against Grubbe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | not use | past · passive | Grubbe | to that | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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