Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 87

Then he put into his pocket the largest of the three rods which he had obtained from the old woman who had fallen and broken her leg.

Who acts: John, old woman · What happens: put, obtain, fall, break · To what, where: pocket, three rods, leg

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 (John, old woman), 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	3 put	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 largest	det
8	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 put	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 rods	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rods	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 rods	nummod
12	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 largest	obl
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 obtained	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 obtained	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 obtained	aux
16	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 rods	acl:relcl
17	from	from	ADP	_	20 woman	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 obtained	obl:agent
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fallen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 woman	acl:relcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 broken	cc
25	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 fallen	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 leg	nmod:poss
27	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 broken	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	past	John		John's pocket	then	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	obtain	past · perfect · passive	the old woman	the three rods			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	fall	past · perfect	the old woman				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	break	participle	the old woman not said here	princess's leg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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