Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 13

He and the shepherdess had been placed close together, side by side; and, being so placed, they became engaged to each other, for they were very well suited, being both made of the same sort of china, and being equally fragile.

Who acts: marks · What happens: place, become, engage, suit, make, be · To what, where: beard, marks, both, china

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marks), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shepherdess	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherdess	det
4	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 He	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 placed	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 placed	aux:pass
7	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 placed	advmod
9	together	together	ADV	_	7 placed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 side	punct
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 side	case
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 placed	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 placed	aux:pass
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 placed	advmod
19	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 placed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 placed	conj
23	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 became	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 engaged	obl
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 suited	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 suited	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 suited	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 suited	aux:pass
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 well	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 suited	advmod
33	suited	suit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 became	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 made	aux:pass
36	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	37 made	nsubj:pass
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 suited	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 sort	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sort	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 sort	amod
41	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 china	case
43	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sort	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fragile	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fragile	cc
46	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 fragile	cop
47	equally	equally	ADV	_	48 fragile	advmod
48	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 made	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past · perfect · passive		beard	side by side obl; close, together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
2	place	gerund · passive				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»
3	become	past	marks = mark			tree rules
4	engage	participle	marks = mark not said here		to each	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	suit	past · passive		marks = mark	well property	tree rules
6	make	gerund · passive		both	of the same sort of china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	is	gerund			equally, fragile property	tree rules
8	sort			china		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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