Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 77

She had brought coffee and chicory with her, for she thought it would be a charity to the poor woman to give them to her to boil a cup of coffee, and then she would take a cup herself.

Who acts: Anne, chicory · What happens: bring, think, be, give, boil, take · To what, where: coffee, charity, cup · Speech: someone speaks here

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, chicory), 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	3 brought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	aux
3	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brought	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chicory	cc
6	chicory	chicory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coffee	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 thought	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 charity	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 charity	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 charity	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 charity	det
17	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 woman	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 charity	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 charity	acl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 boil	mark
28	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 give	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cup	det
30	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boil	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 coffee	case
32	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cup	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 take	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 take	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 take	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 take	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 take	aux
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 cup	det
40	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obj
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 take	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect	Anne	coffee and chicory			with journey	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	Anne					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is a	would	chicory	a charity			to the poor woman	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	Anne not said here		coffee		to Anne	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Recipient
5	boil	to-infinitive	Anne not said here	a cup of coffee				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient
6	take	would	Anne	a cup		then	Anne obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Theme

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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