Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 5

She had her papers with her, and we advised her to put them in an envelope, and to write thereon the address of the proprietor of the estate, "General War-Commissary Knight," &c.

Who acts: dog, we · What happens: have, advise, put, write, address · To what, where: papers, dog, envelope, address, proprietor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, we), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 papers	nmod:poss
4	papers	paper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 advised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 advised	cc
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 advised	nsubj
10	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 advised	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 put	mark
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 advised	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 envelope	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 envelope	det
17	envelope	envelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 write	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 write	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 write	mark
21	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
22	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	24 address	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 address	det
24	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 write	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 proprietor	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 proprietor	det
27	proprietor	proprietor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 address	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 estate	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 estate	det
30	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 proprietor	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Knight	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 Knight	punct
33	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 War	nmod:desc
34	War	War	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Knight	nsubj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Commissary	punct
36	Commissary	Commissary	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Knight	compound
37	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 write	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 c.	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 c.	punct
40	&	&	CCONJ	_	41 c.	cc
41	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 write	obl

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	dog	dog's papers			with her = she	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Patient
2	advise speech: other	past	we		dog			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	put	to-infinitive	we not said here	papers = paper		a envelope		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in envelope=Destination
4	write	to-infinitive	dog not said here	the address of the proprietor of the estate			Commissary Knight obl; c. obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme
5	address			the proprietor of the estate				nom address «communication transitive»: of=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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