Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 24

She took three toads with her, and kissed them, and said to one, "When Eliza comes to the bath, seat yourself upon her head, that she may become as stupid as you are."

Who acts: queen, Eliza, you · What happens: take, kiss, say, come, become, be · To what, where: three toads, toads, one, bath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (queen, Eliza, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 toads	nummod
4	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kissed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kissed	cc
9	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kissed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
18	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 comes	advmod
19	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 comes	nsubj
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 bath	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bath	det
23	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seat	punct
25	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bath	appos
26	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 seat	nmod
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seat	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 become	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 become	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 become	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 become	aux
34	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 comes	parataxis
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 stupid	advmod
36	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 become	xcomp
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 are	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 are	nsubj
39	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 stupid	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	queen		three toads		with book	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument toad=Destination
2	kiss	past	queen not said here	toads = toad				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	queen not said here		one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present	Eliza			the bath		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bath=Initial_Location
5	become in a quote	may	queen				stupid property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	does in a quote	present	you					vn exist-47.1 «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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