Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 87

By-and-by the boy was put to bed, in the same bed as the one in which his mother lay; but he slept at her feet, covered with an old quilt made of blue and white patchwork.

Who acts: mother, boy · What happens: put, lie, sleep, cover, make · To what, where: boy, same bed, feet, old quilt

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, boy), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	9 put	mark
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 slept	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bed	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 bed	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bed	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bed	amod
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lay	obl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	acl:relcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 slept	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 slept	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 slept	nsubj
28	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 feet	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feet	nmod:poss
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slept	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 covered	punct
33	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 slept	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 quilt	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 quilt	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 quilt	amod
37	quilt	quilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
38	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 quilt	acl
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 patchwork	case
40	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 patchwork	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 white	cc
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 blue	conj
43	patchwork	patchwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		the boy	the same bed	to bed; as the one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bed=Destination
2	lie	past	boy's mother			in the one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	sleep	past	boy		mother's feet		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cover	participle	boy not said here			with a old quilt	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with quilt=Theme
5	make	participle		a old quilt not said here		of blue patchwork	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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