Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 103

Poverty laid the table-cloth; poverty sat in the wardrobe and in the larder.

Who acts: Poverty · What happens: lay, sit · To what, where: table cloth, wardrobe

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poverty), 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	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloth	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 table	punct
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wardrobe	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wardrobe	det
12	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 larder	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 larder	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 larder	det
16	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wardrobe	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Poverty	the table cloth					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Result
2	sit	past	poverty			the wardrobe and the larder			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wardrobe=Location

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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