Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 28
She next called Eliza, and helped her to undress and get into the bath.
Who acts: queen · What happens: call, help, undress, get · To what, where: Eliza, queen, 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), 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 | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Eliza | Eliza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 helped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 helped | cc |
| 7 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helped | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 undress | mark |
| 10 | undress | undress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helped | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 undress | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 bath | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | queen | Eliza | next property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eliza=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | past | queen not said here | queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | undress | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | queen not said here | the bath | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bath=Destination |
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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