Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 45

The servant then came to clean out the dust-bin.

Who acts: servant · What happens: come, clean out · To what, where: dust bin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 clean	mark
6	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 clean	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bin	det
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bin	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dust	punct
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clean	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the servant				then		tree rules
2	clean out	to-infinitive	the servant not said here	the dust bin					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bin=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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