Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 8

Her Puggie had seated itself on the ground while she wrote, and growled; for the dog had come with her for amusement and for the sake of its health; and then the bare floor ought not to be offered to a visitor.

Who acts: dog · What happens: seat, write, growl, come, not offer · To what, where: Puggie, ground, bare floor, visitor

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), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Puggie	nmod:poss
2	Puggie	Puggie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 seated	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	aux
4	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 seated	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seated	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 wrote	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wrote	nsubj
11	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 growled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 growled	cc
14	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrote	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 dog	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seated	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 amusement	case
24	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sake	cc
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 sake	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sake	det
28	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 amusement	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 health	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 health	nmod:poss
31	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sake	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 offered	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 offered	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 offered	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 floor	det
36	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 floor	amod
37	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 offered	nsubj
38	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 offered	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 offered	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	42 offered	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 offered	aux:pass
42	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seated	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 visitor	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 visitor	det
45	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 offered	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	past · perfect · passive		dog's Puggie		the ground			tree rules
2	write	past	dog						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	growl	past	dog not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past · perfect						for the dog; with dog; for amusement and the sake of direction's health	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not offer	ought · passive		the bare floor	a visitor		then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to visitor=Goal

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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