Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 115

In her youth she had once swallowed a hook, and still swam patiently about with it in her gullet. "

Who acts: maid · What happens: swallow, swim · To what, where: hook, youth, gullet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 youth	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youth	nmod:poss
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallowed	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swallowed	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallowed	aux
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 swallowed	advmod
7	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hook	det
9	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallowed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 swam	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swam	cc
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 swam	advmod
13	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 swallowed	conj
14	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	15 about	advmod
15	about	about	ADV	_	13 swam	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 swam	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 gullet	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gullet	nmod:poss
20	gullet	gullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swam	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swallowed	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past · perfect	maid	a hook		maid's youth		once property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient
2	swim	past	maid not said here			maid's gullet	still	with hook; about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gullet=Trajectory

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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