Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 16

And he had to sit out in the rain in the worst weather, and get wet to the skin, and let the cold wind dry the clothes on his back afterwards.

Who acts: boy, cold wind · What happens: have, sit out, get, let, dry · To what, where: rain, cold wind, clothes, back

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, cold wind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 sit	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 rain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rain	det
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 weather	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weather	det
12	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 weather	amod
13	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 get	cc
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 get	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 skin	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 skin	det
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wet	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sit	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wind	det
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wind	amod
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 let	obj
27	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 clothes	det
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 dry	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 back	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 back	nmod:poss
32	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clothes	nmod
33	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	27 dry	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy				tree rules
2	sit out	to-infinitive	boy not said here		the rain	in the worst weather	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location
3	get	infinitive	boy not said here			wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	let	infinitive	boy not said here	the cold wind			tree rules
5	dry	infinitive	the cold wind not said here	the clothes	boy's back	afterwards property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result

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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