Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 52

He threw the body into the sea to the fishes, and after dipping the head into the water, he tied it up in a silk handkerchief, took it with him to the inn, and then went to bed.

Who acts: magician · What happens: throw, dip, tie up, take, go · To what, where: body, sea, head, water, silk handkerchief, inn

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 body	det
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fishes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fishes	det
10	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tied	cc
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 dipping	mark
14	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tied	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipping	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dipping	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tied	nsubj
22	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tied	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 tied	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 handkerchief	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 handkerchief	det
27	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 handkerchief	compound
28	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 inn	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 inn	det
36	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 went	advmod
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 bed	case
42	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	magician	the body			into the sea result; to the fishes	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer body=Theme into sea=Result
2	dip	gerund	magician not said here	the head	the water			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme into water=Destination
3	tie up	past	magician	head	a silk handkerchief			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	take	past		head	the inn		with magician	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to inn=Destination
5	go	past			bed	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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