Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 86

Then his fellow-traveller lifted him gently out of his chair, and laid him on the bed; and as soon as it was quite dark, he took the two large wings which he had cut from the dead swan, and tied them firmly to his own shoulders.

Who acts: fellow traveller, bed, John · What happens: lift, lay, be, take, cut, tie · To what, where: John, chair, bed, two large wings, dead swan, wings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow traveller, bed, John), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lifted	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 traveller	nmod:poss
3	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 traveller	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 fellow	punct
5	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	nsubj
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lifted	obj
8	gently	gently	ADV	_	6 lifted	advmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 chair	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 chair	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chair	nmod:poss
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lifted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 soon	advmod
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 took	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 dark	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dark	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dark	cop
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 dark	advmod
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 soon	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wings	det
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 wings	nummod
34	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wings	amod
35	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	obj
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 cut	nsubj:pass
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cut	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cut	aux
39	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 wings	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	43 swan	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 swan	det
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 swan	amod
43	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cut	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tied	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 tied	cc
46	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 tied	obj
48	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	46 tied	advmod
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 shoulders	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 shoulders	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 shoulders	amod
52	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 tied	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	John's fellow traveller	John	John's chair	then	gently property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out chair=Destination
2	lay	past	John's fellow traveller not said here	John	the bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bed=Destination
3	is	past	bed				dark property	tree rules
4	take	past	John	the two large wings			soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
5	cut	past · perfect · passive		the two large wings	the dead swan			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from swan=Material
6	tie	past	John not said here	wings = wing			to John's own shoulders; firmly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to shoulder=Co-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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