Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 95

"My mother had hardly understood what he said before he disappeared from the room, and went downstairs, in order to save her the troublesome walk for the gift she came to fetch.

Who acts: child, mother · What happens: understand, say, disappear, go, save, come · To what, where: mother, room, troublesome walk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 understood	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understood	aux
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	6 understood	advmod
6	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 said	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 understood	conj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 disappeared	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 disappeared	nsubj
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 disappeared	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
19	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	18 went	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 save	punct
21	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 save	mark
22	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 in	fixed
23	to	to	PART	_	24 save	mark
24	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 save	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 walk	det
27	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 walk	amod
28	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 save	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 gift	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gift	det
31	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walk	nmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 fetch	mark
35	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 came	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand in a quote	past · perfect · passive		My mother			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	child					tree rules
3	disappear in a quote	past	child			the room		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from room=Initial_Location
4	go in a quote	past	child not said here				downstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	save in a quote	to-infinitive	child not said here	the troublesome walk	mother			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary walk=Theme
6	come in a quote	past	mother	the troublesome walk not said here				tree rules
7	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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