Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 44

Then the daughter-in-law kissed the old grandfather, and led him to a large arm-chair by the table; and she, and her husband, who was the son of the old man and the father of the little boy who lay in bed, sat down to supper with him.

Who acts: daughter, husband, little boy · What happens: kiss, lead, be, lie, sit down, supper · To what, where: old grandfather, grandfather, large arm chair, son, bed

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, husband, little boy), 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	8 kissed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kissed	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 law	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 law	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 daughter	conj
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grandfather	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandfather	amod
11	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kissed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 led	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 led	cc
14	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kissed	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 led	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 chair	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chair	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chair	amod
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chair	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 arm	punct
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 led	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chair	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 sat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sat	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sat	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sat	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 husband	nmod:poss
31	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sat	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 son	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 son	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 son	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 son	det
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 husband	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 man	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 son	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 father	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 father	det
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 man	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 boy	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 boy	det
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 boy	amod
47	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 father	nmod
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 boy	acl:relcl
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 bed	case
51	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 husband	punct
53	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kissed	conj
54	down	down	ADV	_	53 sat	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 supper	mark
56	supper	supper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sat	advcl
57	with	with	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 supper	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	the daughter and law	the old grandfather		then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Co-Agent
2	lead	past	the daughter and law not said here	grandfather	a large arm chair by the table			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chair=Destination
3	is a	past	daughter's husband	the son			of the old man and the father of the little boy	tree rules
4	lie	past	the little boy		bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
5	sit down	past	daughter				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	supper	to-infinitive	daughter not said here				with husband	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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