Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 35

The tree that had been killed by the fumes of gas, the steam of kitchens, and the bad air of the city, was put upon the wagon and driven away.

Who acts: fumes, gas · What happens: kill, put, drive away, fume · To what, where: tree, wagon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (fumes, gas), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tree	det
2	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 killed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 killed	aux:pass
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tree	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 fumes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fumes	det
9	fumes	fume	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 killed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gas	case
11	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fumes	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 steam	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 steam	det
14	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gas	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 kitchens	case
16	kitchens	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 steam	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 air	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 air	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
20	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 air	amod
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tree	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 city	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 air	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tree	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux:pass
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 wagon	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wagon	det
30	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 driven	cc
32	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 put	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 driven	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive	the fumes of gas	the tree and the bad air of the city			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	put	past · passive		the tree and the bad air of the city	the wagon		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon wagon=Destination
3	drive away	participle				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	fume		gas				nom fume «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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