Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 60

Every fisherman has a female helper, or manager as she is called, who baits his hooks, prepares warm beer for him when he comes ashore, and gets the dinner cooked and ready for him by the time he comes back to the hut tired and hungry.

Who acts: fisherman, manager, Norway, dinner · What happens: have, call, bait, prepare, come, get · To what, where: female helper, cattle, hooks, warm beer, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, manager, Norway, dinner), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 helper	det
5	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 helper	amod
6	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 manager	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 manager	cc
9	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	parataxis
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 called	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	aux:pass
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 manager	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 baits	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 baits	nsubj
16	baits	bait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 called	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hooks	nmod:poss
18	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 baits	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prepares	punct
20	prepares	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 baits	conj
21	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beer	amod
22	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prepares	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 prepares	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 comes	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 comes	nsubj
27	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 prepares	advcl
28	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	27 comes	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gets	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gets	cc
31	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dinner	det
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cooked	nsubj
34	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gets	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ready	cc
36	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cooked	conj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cooked	obl
39	by	by	ADP	_	41 time	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 time	det
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 comes	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 comes	nsubj
43	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 cooked	parataxis
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 comes	advmod
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 hut	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hut	det
47	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 comes	obl
48	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 hut	amod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hungry	cc
50	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 tired	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every fisherman	a female helper				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helper=Patient
2	call speech: assert	present · passive	manager not said here	cattle				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	bait	present		Norway's hooks				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hook=Destination
4	prepare	present		warm beer			for Norway	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beer=Product for he=Beneficiary
5	come	present	Norway				ashore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	get	present						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	cook	past	the dinner				for Norway	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary
8	come back	present	dinner		the hut	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location

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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