Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 17
It was steeped, and roasted, and broken, and combed; indeed, it scarcely knew what was done to it.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: steep, roast, break, comb, know, do · To what, where: plenty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (plenty), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 steeped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 steeped | aux:pass |
| 3 | steeped | steep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 roasted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 roasted | cc |
| 6 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 steeped | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 broken | cc |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 roasted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 combed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 combed | cc |
| 12 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 steeped | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 18 knew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 18 knew | advmod |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 steeped | parataxis |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 steeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steep | past · passive | plenty | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | comb | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | know | past | plenty | indeed, scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do | past · passive | plenty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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