Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 84

Jurgen's foster-father took to his bed, and it became his death-bed, for he died a week afterwards; and now Jurgen was heir to the little house behind the sand-hills.

Who acts: foster father, bed, father · What happens: take, become, die, be · To what, where: death bed, Jurgen heir

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 (foster father, bed, father), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 father	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jurgen	case
3	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 foster	punct
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bed	nmod:poss
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bed	nmod:poss
15	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bed	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 death	punct
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 died	case
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 week	det
23	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	obl:unmarked
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	21 died	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 heir	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heir	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 heir	advmod
28	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 heir	compound
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heir	cop
30	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 house	amod
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heir	nmod
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 hills	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hills	det
37	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hills	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 sand	punct
39	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 house	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Jurgen's foster father			to father's bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
2	become	past	bed	father's death bed			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	die	past	father		week	afterwards property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	past		Jurgen heir	now	to the little house behind the sand hills	tree rules

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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