Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 77

He told him to place a large bath full of water by the princess's bed, and put the feathers and the drops into it.

Who acts: John · What happens: tell, put · To what, where: place, traveller, feathers, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 place	mark
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bath	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bath	amod
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 place	appos
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bath	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 princess	det
14	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bed	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 princess	case
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feathers	det
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drops	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 drops	det
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feathers	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	John	place	traveller				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic
2	put	infinitive	John not said here	the feathers and the drops		bed			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent feather=Goal

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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