Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 30

And so they lay on the counter for days and weeks, till they grew hard and dry; but the thoughts of the maiden became ever more tender and womanly. '

Who acts: pennies, thoughts · What happens: lay, grow, become, think · To what, where: counter, more tender, maiden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pennies, thoughts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 counter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 counter	det
7	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weeks	cc
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 days	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	parataxis
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dry	cc
18	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hard	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thoughts	det
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 became	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 maiden	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maiden	det
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thoughts	nmod
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 more	advmod
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 tender	amod
29	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 became	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 womanly	cc
31	womanly	womanly	ADV	_	26 became	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	pennies = penny		the counter	day		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on counter=Destination
2	grow	past	pennies = penny				hard property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	the thoughts of the maiden	more tender				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	think			the maiden				nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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