Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 49

When the beloved object has lain for five years in a gutter, and has been drenched through, no one cares to know her again on meeting her in a dust-bin.

Who acts: one · What happens: lie, drench, care, know, meet · To what, where: beloved object, gutter, servant, 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 (one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lain	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 object	det
3	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 object	amod
4	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lain	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lain	aux
6	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lain	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 gutter	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gutter	det
12	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lain	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drenched	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drenched	cc
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drenched	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 drenched	aux:pass
17	drenched	drench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lain	conj
18	through	through	ADV	_	17 drenched	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cares	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cares	nsubj
22	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 drenched	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 know	mark
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cares	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	obj
26	again	again	ADV	_	24 know	advmod
27	on	on	SCONJ	_	28 meeting	mark
28	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 know	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 meeting	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 bin	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bin	det
32	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bin	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 dust	punct
34	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meeting	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · perfect · passive		the beloved object	a gutter	year		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drench	present · perfect · passive					through property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»
3	care	present	no one					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	know	to-infinitive	no one not said here	servant		again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	meet	gerund	no one not said here	servant	a dust bin			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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