Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 29
Every morning the maid turns me over, and I have a shower-bath from the watering-pot every evening.
Who acts: maid, I · What happens: turn over, have · To what, where: me, shower bath, watering pot
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 (maid, I), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maid | det |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turns | nsubj |
| 5 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 turns | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 turns | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 turns | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bath | det |
| 13 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bath | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 shower | punct |
| 15 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pot | det |
| 18 | watering | watering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pot | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 watering | punct |
| 20 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bath | nmod |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 evening | det |
| 22 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | present | the maid | me | morning | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | a shower bath | the watering pot | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=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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