Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 33

Then his daughter came to him and said it was getting late, that he ought to rest for a while, and that the supper was on the table.

Who acts: daughter, hand, Frederick, supper · What happens: come, say, get, rest, be · To what, where: Frederick, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, hand, Frederick, supper), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 getting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 getting	aux
11	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
12	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 getting	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rest	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 rest	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rest	nsubj
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 rest	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rest	mark
18	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 getting	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 while	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 while	det
21	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 table	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 table	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 table	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 supper	det
26	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 table	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 table	cop
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 getting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Frederick's daughter	Frederick		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Frederick's daughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past · progressive	hand				late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	rest	ought	Frederick			while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the supper		the table			tree rules

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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