Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 83
Then she drew the linen ashore, wet as it was, and laid it in a basket.
Who acts: mother, linen · What happens: draw, be, lay · To what, where: linen, basket
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 (mother, linen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 linen | det |
| 5 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | ashore | ashore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drew | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wet | punct |
| 8 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ashore | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wet | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 laid | cc |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | mother | the linen | then | ashore property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Theme | ||
| 2 | be | past | linen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | mother not said here | linen | a basket | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in basket=Destination |
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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