Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 110
They poured out the wine, bowed their heads, and withdrew.
Who acts: maids · What happens: pour out, bow, withdraw · To what, where: wine, heads
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maids), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 poured | nsubj |
| 2 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 poured | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wine | det |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowed | punct |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 poured | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bowed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withdrew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 withdrew | cc |
| 12 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 poured | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | past | maids = maid | the wine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | maids = maid not said here | maids's heads | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | past | maids = maid not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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