Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 5

The little child had dozed off to sleep for a moment, and the mother, seeing that the old man shivered with the cold, rose and placed a small mug of beer on the stove to warm for him.

Who acts: mother, old man · What happens: doze off, sleep, see, shiver, rise, place · To what, where: little child, old man, small mug, stove

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, 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 child	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dozed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dozed	aux
5	dozed	doze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 dozed	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sleep	mark
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dozed	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mother	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dozed	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 mother	acl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 rose	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rose	nsubj
22	shivered	shiver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 man	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 cold	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cold	det
25	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shivered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
27	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seeing	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 placed	cc
29	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rose	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mug	det
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mug	amod
32	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 beer	case
34	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mug	nmod
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 stove	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stove	det
37	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placed	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 warm	mark
39	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 placed	advcl
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 warm	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dozed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past · perfect · passive		the little child				tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive				moment		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	gerund	the mother not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	shiver	participle		the old man not said here			with the cold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	rise	past	the old man					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	place	past	the old man not said here	a small mug of beer	the stove			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mug=Theme on stove=Destination
7	warm	to-infinitive	the old man not said here				for man	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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