Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 14

Well, one day some people came, who took hold of the flax, and pulled it up by the roots; this was painful; then it was laid in water as if they intended to drown it; and, after that, placed near a fire as if it were to be roasted; all this was very shocking. "

Who acts: people, this · What happens: come, take, pull up, be, lay, intend · To what, where: hold, water, fire, flax

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, this), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 flax	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flax	det
14	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pulled	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 pulled	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 roots	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roots	det
22	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pulled	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 painful	punct
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 painful	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 painful	cop
26	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	parataxis
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 laid	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 laid	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 laid	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laid	aux:pass
31	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 painful	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 water	case
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 laid	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 intended	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 intended	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 intended	nsubj
37	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 laid	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 drown	mark
39	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 intended	xcomp
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 drown	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 placed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 placed	cc
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 and	punct
44	after	after	ADP	_	45 that	case
45	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	47 placed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 that	punct
47	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 came	conj
48	near	near	ADP	_	50 fire	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 fire	det
50	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 placed	obl
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 roasted	mark
52	if	if	SCONJ	_	57 roasted	mark
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 roasted	nsubj:pass
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 roasted	aux:pass
55	to	to	PART	_	57 roasted	mark
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 roasted	aux:pass
57	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 placed	advcl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 shocking	punct
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	60 this	det:predet
60	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	63 shocking	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 shocking	cop
62	very	very	ADV	_	63 shocking	advmod
63	shocking	shocking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	parataxis
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	63 shocking	punct
65	"	"	PUNCT	_	63 shocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	some people			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past		hold of the flax				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	pull up	past		hold			by the roots	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	past	this				painful property	tree rules
5	lay	past · passive		hold	water	then		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination
6	intend	past	People					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here	hold				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	place	participle	some people not said here		a fire	after that		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near fire=Destination
9	roast	past · passive		hold				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
10	is	past	this				shocking property	tree rules
11	hold			the flax				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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