Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 20

The next morning early, the two children were placed on the top of a high pile of firewood in the boat, and sat eating bread and wild strawberries, while Christina's father and his man drove the boat forward with poles.

Who acts: father · What happens: place, sit, eat, drive · To what, where: two children, top, bread, boat

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 (father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	obl:unmarked
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 morning	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 placed	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	aux:pass
10	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 top	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 top	det
13	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 placed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 pile	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pile	det
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pile	amod
17	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 top	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 firewood	case
19	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pile	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 boat	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boat	det
22	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 firewood	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	parataxis
26	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 sat	xcomp
27	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eating	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 strawberries	cc
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 strawberries	amod
30	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bread	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 drove	punct
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 drove	mark
33	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 father	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 Christina	case
35	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drove	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 man	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 man	nmod:poss
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 father	conj
39	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boat	det
41	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 drove	obj
42	forward	forward	ADV	_	39 drove	advmod
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 poles	case
44	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 drove	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the two children	the top of a high pile of firewood in the boat	morning		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on top=Destination
2	sit	past						tree rules
3	eat	gerund		bread and wild strawberries				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
4	drive	past	Christina's father and father's man	the boat			with poles; forward property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=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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