Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 28
Then he comforted her, and showed her how to place her little foot on the carved edge and gilt-leaf ornaments of the table.
Who acts: profession · What happens: comfort, show, carve · To what, where: sweep
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 (profession), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 showed | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 showed | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 place | mark |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 how | nsubj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foot | amod |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 17 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 edge | amod |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 foot | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ornaments | cc |
| 20 | gilt | gilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaf | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 gilt | punct |
| 22 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ornaments | compound |
| 23 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 edge | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 table | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 table | det |
| 26 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ornaments | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | profession | sweep | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | show | past | profession not said here | sweep | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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