Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 13

But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.

Who acts: queen · What happens: say, go, take, lay · To what, where: nothing, bed room, bedding, bedstead, pea, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bed	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 bedding	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bedding	det
16	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	19 bedstead	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bedstead	det
19	bedstead	bedstead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laid	cc
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pea	det
24	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 took	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
32	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 mattresses	nummod
33	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 laid	cc
35	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 laid	obj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 pea	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pea	det
39	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 laid	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 beds	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 beds	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 twenty	advmod
43	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 beds	nummod
44	eider	eider	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 down	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 eider	punct
46	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 beds	compound
47	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	obl
48	on	on	ADP	_	49 top	case
49	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 beds	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 mattresses	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 mattresses	det
52	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 top	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	queen	nothing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	go	past	queen not said here		the bed room			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	take	past		all bedding	the bedstead			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bedding=Theme off bedstead=Initial_Location
4	lay	past		a pea	the bottom			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pea=Theme on bottom=Destination
5	take	past	queen	twenty mattresses		then	twenty down beds on top of the mattresses obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattress=Theme
6	lay	past	queen not said here	mattresses = mattress	the pea			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on pea=Destination

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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