Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 28

The boy drew the bottle from his pocket, and the mother put it to her lips, and drank a little.

Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: draw, put, drink · To what, where: bottle, pocket, little

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 (boy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottle	det
5	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 lips	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drank	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drank	cc
20	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 drank	obl:unmarked
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	the boy	the bottle	boy's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	put	past	the mother	bottle		to mother's lips	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	drink	past	the boy not said here	a little			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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