Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 23

He turned round the corner of the street into the little lane that led to the river, where his mother stood in the water by her washing bench, beating the linen with a heavy wooden bar.

Who acts: wind, little lane, mother · What happens: turn, lead, stand, beat · To what, where: little lane, water, linen

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 (wind, little lane, mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	5 corner	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corner	det
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 corner	nmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 lane	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lane	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lane	amod
12	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 led	nsubj
14	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lane	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 led	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 stood	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 river	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 bench	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bench	nmod:poss
28	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bench	compound
29	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 beating	punct
31	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 stood	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 linen	det
33	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beating	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 bar	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bar	det
36	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bar	amod
37	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bar	amod
38	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 beating	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	wind		the little lane	round the corner of the street	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme round corner=Source into lane=Trajectory
2	lead	past	the little lane			to the river	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to river=Patient
3	stand	past	wind's mother		the water	by mother's washing bench	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
4	beat	gerund	wind's mother not said here	the linen		with a heavy wooden bar	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent linen=Patient with bar=Instrument

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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