Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 82
Kind Martha warmed a mug of beer for her, with butter and sugar--she considered this the best medicine--and then hastened to the river, washed and rinsed, badly enough, to be sure, but she did her best.
Who acts: Kind, mother · What happens: warm, consider, hasten, wash, rinse, be · To what, where: mug, this, river, best
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 (Kind, 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 | Kind | Kind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warmed | nsubj |
| 2 | Martha | Martha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kind | flat |
| 3 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mug | det |
| 5 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warmed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beer | case |
| 7 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mug | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warmed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 butter | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 butter | case |
| 12 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warmed | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sugar | cc |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 butter | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 considered | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 considered | nsubj |
| 17 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 warmed | conj |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 considered | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 medicine | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 medicine | amod |
| 21 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 considered | xcomp |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 hastened | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hastened | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 hastened | advmod |
| 25 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 warmed | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hastened | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 washed | punct |
| 30 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 hastened | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rinsed | cc |
| 32 | rinsed | rinse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 washed | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 badly | punct |
| 34 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 washed | advmod |
| 35 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 34 badly | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sure | punct |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 sure | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 sure | cop |
| 39 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 washed | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 did | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 did | cc |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 did | nsubj |
| 43 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 warmed | conj |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 best | nmod:poss |
| 45 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 43 did | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | past | Kind | a mug of beer | for mother | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mug=Patient | |||
| 2 | consider | past | mother | this | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the river | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to river=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wash | participle | badly property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rinse | participle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | past | mother | mother's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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