Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 88
The pastor's wife had pity on her, and took her into service.
Who acts: wife · What happens: have, take · To what, where: pity, Karen, service
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pastor | det |
| 2 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pastor | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the pastor's wife | pity | on Karen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | the pastor's wife not said here | Karen | service | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into service=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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