Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 46

Eight days and eight nights she stayed by the well, and experienced no want of provisions.

Who acts: Eight days · What happens: stay, experience, want · To what, where: want, provisions

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eight days), 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	Eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stayed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
4	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nights	nummod
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 experienced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 experienced	cc
13	experienced	experience	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stayed	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 want	det
15	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 experienced	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 provisions	case
17	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 want	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Eight days and eight nights		by the well	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by well=Location
2	experience	past	Eight days and eight nights not said here	no want of provisions		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer want=Stimulus
3	want			provisions		nom want «state 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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