Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 30

He drew out a sharp knife, and while the other was kissing the rose, the wicked man stabbed him to death; then he cut off his head, and buried it with the body in the soft earth under the linden-tree.

Who acts: elf, other, wicked man · What happens: draw out, kiss, stab, cut off, bury · To what, where: sharp knife, rose, elf, head, soft earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, other, wicked man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 drew	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knife	amod
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stabbed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stabbed	cc
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 kissing	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kissing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kissing	aux
13	kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stabbed	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rose	det
15	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kissing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kissing	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stabbed	nsubj
20	stabbed	stab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stabbed	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stabbed	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 cut	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	parataxis
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 buried	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 buried	cc
33	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 buried	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 body	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 body	det
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 buried	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 earth	det
40	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 earth	amod
41	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 buried	obl
42	under	under	ADP	_	46 tree	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
44	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tree	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 linden	punct
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 buried	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw out	past	elf	a sharp knife				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	kiss	past · progressive	the other	the rose				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent
3	stab	past	the wicked man	elf			to death result	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result
4	cut off	past	elf	elf's head		then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	bury	past	elf not said here	head	the soft earth		with the body; under the linden tree	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=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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