Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 153

Her head rested on dry land, but her feet were in the water; her wooden shoes, which were only tied on by a wisp of straw, were carried away by the stream, and thus she was found by Martha when she came to bring her some coffee.

Who acts: head, feet, wisp, stream, Martha, banns · What happens: rest, be, tie on, carry away, find, come · To what, where: dry land, water, wooden shoes, banns, coffee

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, feet, wisp, stream), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	nsubj
3	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 water	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 water	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 water	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 water	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	parataxis
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 shoes	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoes	nmod:poss
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rested	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tied	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tied	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tied	aux:pass
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 tied	advmod
23	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shoes	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 tied	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wisp	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wisp	det
27	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tied	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 straw	case
29	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wisp	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carried	punct
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 carried	aux:pass
32	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rested	parataxis
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 carried	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 stream	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stream	det
36	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carried	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 found	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 found	cc
39	thus	thus	ADV	_	42 found	advmod
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 found	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 found	aux:pass
42	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 carried	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 Martha	case
44	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 found	obl
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 came	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 found	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 bring	mark
49	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 came	xcomp
50	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 bring	obj
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 coffee	det
52	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 bring	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	banns's head			dry land		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
2	is	past	banns's feet			the water		tree rules
3	tie on	past · passive	a wisp of straw	banns's wooden shoes				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	carry away	past · passive	the stream				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	find	past · passive	Martha	banns			thus property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
6	come	past	banns					tree rules
7	bring	to-infinitive	banns not said here	some coffee	banns			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination coffee=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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