Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 17

The old man sat down by the fire, and taking the little boy on his knee, wrung the water out of his locks and warmed his hands in his own.

Who acts: old man · What happens: sit down, take, wring, warm · To what, where: little boy, knee, water, locks, hands, own

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taking	cc
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sat	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 knee	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 knee	nmod:poss
17	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrung	punct
19	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrung	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 locks	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 locks	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 locks	nmod:poss
25	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wrung	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 warmed	cc
27	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wrung	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 warmed	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 own	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 own	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 warmed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the old man			by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	take	gerund	the old man not said here	the little boy	man's knee		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme on knee=Destination
3	wring	past	the old man not said here	the water	water's locks		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme out lock=Trajectory
4	warm	past	the old man not said here	water's hands	water's own		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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