Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 2

She had a little child, not at all pretty; so he was put out to be nursed by a laborer's wife, and his mother went to the count's castle.

Who acts: Anne, wife, mother · What happens: have, put out, nurse, go · To what, where: little child, child, castle

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 (Anne, wife, mother), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 all	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 all	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 had	conj
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	9 all	amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	aux:pass
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	19 nursed	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 nursed	aux:pass
19	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 put	advcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	24 wife	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 laborer	det
22	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wife	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 laborer	case
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nursed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mother	nmod:poss
28	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 castle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 count	det
32	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 castle	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 count	case
34	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Anne	a little child		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	put out	past · passive		child		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	nurse	to-infinitive · passive	a laborer's wife			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	child's mother		the count's castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location

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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