Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 83

Then a man took it up to remove it, and one of the bees stung him in the hand, so that he let the flower-pot fall, and it was broken to pieces.

Who acts: man, one, elf · What happens: take up, remove, sting, let, break · To what, where: revenge, elf, hand, pot fall

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 (man, one, elf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 remove	mark
8	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remove	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stung	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stung	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 stung	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 bees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bees	det
15	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stung	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 let	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stung	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fall	det
27	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pot	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 flower	punct
29	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	compound
30	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 let	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 broken	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 broken	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 broken	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 broken	aux:pass
35	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 let	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 pieces	case
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 broken	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	a man	revenge		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	remove	to-infinitive	a man not said here	revenge				vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	sting	past	one of the bees	elf	the hand			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
4	let	past	elf	the pot fall				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Theme
5	break	past · passive		revenge			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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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