Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 62
Then the paper was tied in a bundle with other papers, and thrown into a tub that stood in the washhouse.
Who acts: tub · What happens: tie, throw, stand · To what, where: paper, bundle, tub, washhouse
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 (tub), 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 | 5 tied | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paper | det |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | aux:pass |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bundle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bundle | det |
| 8 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 papers | case |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 papers | amod |
| 11 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bundle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | cc |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tied | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tub | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tub | det |
| 17 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tub | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 washhouse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 washhouse | det |
| 22 | washhouse | washhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | the paper | a bundle with other papers | then | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | participle | into a tub result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into tub=Result | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | a tub | the washhouse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in washhouse=Location |
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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