Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 58

A pretty servant-maid was just filling her pails, and she gave Knud a refreshing draught; she had a handful of roses, and she gave him one, which appeared to him like a good omen for the future.

Who acts: pretty servant maid, maid, one · What happens: fill, give, refresh, have, appear · To what, where: pails, refreshing draught, Knud, handful

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (pretty servant maid, maid, one), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 maid	det
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maid	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 servant	punct
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 filling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 filling	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 filling	advmod
8	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pails	nmod:poss
10	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 filling	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 filling	parataxis
15	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 draught	det
17	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 draught	amod
18	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 handful	det
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 roses	case
25	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handful	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 had	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 appeared	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 appeared	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 appeared	nsubj
34	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gave	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 appeared	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 omen	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 omen	det
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 omen	amod
40	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 appeared	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 future	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 future	det
43	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 omen	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 filling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fill	past · progressive	a pretty servant maid	maid's pails			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient
2	give	past	maid	a refreshing draught	Knud		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent knud=Recipient draught=Theme
3	refresh	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	maid	a handful of roses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Patient
5	give	past	maid		Knud		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	appear	past	one		Knud	like a good omen for the future	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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