Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 46

The huckster's wife was so bewildered that she took her gold ear-rings out of her ears and put them in her pocket, that she might save something at least.

Who acts: wife · What happens: bewilder, take, put, save · To what, where: wife, gold ear rings, ears, rings, pocket, something

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 huckster	det
2	huckster	huckster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 huckster	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bewildered	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bewildered	aux:pass
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bewildered	advmod
7	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bewildered	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 rings	nmod:poss
12	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rings	compound
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rings	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ear	punct
15	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 ears	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 pocket	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pocket	nmod:poss
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 save	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 save	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 save	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 save	aux
30	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	conj
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 save	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 save	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bewildered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bewilder	past · passive		the huckster's wife		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	take	past	wife	wife's gold ear rings	wife's ears	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme out ear=Initial_Location
3	put	infinitive	wife not said here	rings = ring	wife's pocket	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=Destination
4	save	might	wife	something	least	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent something=Theme at least=Asset

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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