Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 187
Then he raised the head of the sick woman, and smoothed her pillow.
Who acts: service · What happens: raise, smooth · To what, where: head, pillow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service), 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 | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smoothed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 smoothed | cc |
| 12 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smoothed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | service | the head of the sick woman | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | smooth | past | service not said here | girl's pillow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient |
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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