Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 36
The water dripped from the straw mat which she had bound round her body, and from her gown. "
What happens: drip, bind · To what, where: water, straw mat
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: 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 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gown | nsubj |
| 3 | dripped | drip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 water | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mat | det |
| 6 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mat | compound |
| 7 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dripped | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bound | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bound | aux |
| 11 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bound | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gown | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gown | cc |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 gown | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gown | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 gown | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 gown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drip | participle | the water not said here | the straw mat | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from mat=Source | ||||
| 2 | bind | past · perfect · passive | the straw mat | round child's body | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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