Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 8

So when Gerda was warmed, and had taken something to eat and drink, the woman wrote a few words on the dried fish, and told Gerda to take great care of it.

Who acts: woman · What happens: warm, take, eat, drink, write, dry · To what, where: Gerda, something, few words, great care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 warmed	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 warmed	advmod
3	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warmed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warmed	aux:pass
5	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 taken	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 warmed	conj
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 taken	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 something	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drink	cc
14	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 eat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	nsubj
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 words	det
20	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 words	amod
21	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrote	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 fish	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fish	det
24	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fish	amod
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 words	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	conj
29	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 told	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	xcomp
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 care	amod
33	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warm	past · passive		Gerda			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	take	past · perfect		something			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drink	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	write	past	the woman	a few words		on the dried fish	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme on fish=Destination
6	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	past	the woman not said here		Gerda		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gerda=Recipient clause=Topic
8	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	great care		of care	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=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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