Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 24

The floodgates at the mill had been drawn up, and as the water rolled rapidly on, the sheets were dragged along by the stream, and nearly overturned the bench, so that the washer-woman was obliged to lean against it to keep it steady. "

Who acts: water, stream · What happens: draw up, roll, drag, overturn, oblige, lean · To what, where: floodgates, sheets, bench, washer woman, water

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 (water, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floodgates	det
2	floodgates	floodgate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drawn	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mill	det
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 floodgates	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 drawn	aux:pass
8	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 drawn	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rolled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rolled	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 rolled	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rolled	nsubj
15	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	conj
16	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	17 on	advmod
17	on	on	ADV	_	15 rolled	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dragged	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheets	det
20	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 dragged	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dragged	aux:pass
22	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 drawn	conj
23	along	along	ADV	_	22 dragged	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 stream	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stream	det
26	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dragged	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 overturned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 overturned	cc
29	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	30 overturned	advmod
30	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drawn	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bench	det
32	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 overturned	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 obliged	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 obliged	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 woman	det
37	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 woman	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 washer	punct
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 obliged	nsubj:pass
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 obliged	aux:pass
41	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 overturned	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 lean	mark
43	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 obliged	xcomp
44	against	against	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 lean	obl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 keep	mark
47	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 lean	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 keep	obj
49	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 keep	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 drawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw up	past · perfect · passive		the floodgates at the mill			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	roll	past	the water				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drag	past · passive	the stream	the sheets		along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	overturn	past		the bench		nearly property	tree rules
5	oblige	past · passive		the washer woman			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	lean	to-infinitive			water		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against it=Location
7	keep	to-infinitive		water		steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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