Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 14

Inge's mother was sitting on a stone to rest, with a fagot of sticks lying before her, which she had picked up in the wood.

Who acts: mother, sticks · What happens: sit, rest, lie, pick up · To what, where: stone, fagot, wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sticks), 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	Inge	Inge	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Inge	case
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 rest	mark
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sitting	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fagot	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 fagot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fagot	det
14	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sticks	case
16	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fagot	nmod
17	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 sticks	acl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 picked	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 picked	nsubj:pass
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 picked	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 picked	aux
24	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fagot	acl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 picked	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 picked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Inge's mother		a stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
2	rest	to-infinitive	Inge's mother not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	gerund	sticks not said here			before mother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
4	pick up	past · perfect · passive		a fagot of sticks	the wood		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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