Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 26

After the firewood had been unloaded, Christina's father bought a whole bundle of eels and a sucking-pig, which were all placed in a basket in the stern of the boat.

Who acts: father · What happens: unload, buy, suck, place · To what, where: firewood, whole bundle, sucking pig, basket

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	After	after	SCONJ	_	6 unloaded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 firewood	det
3	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 unloaded	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unloaded	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 unloaded	aux:pass
6	unloaded	unload	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bought	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 unloaded	punct
8	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Christina	case
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bought	nsubj
11	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bundle	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bundle	amod
14	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bought	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 eels	case
16	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bundle	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pig	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pig	det
19	sucking	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 pig	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sucking	punct
21	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eels	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 placed	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 placed	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 placed	aux:pass
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 placed	advmod
26	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pig	acl:relcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 basket	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 basket	det
29	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 placed	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 stern	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stern	det
32	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 basket	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 boat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 boat	det
35	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stern	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 bought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unload	past · perfect · passive		the firewood			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	buy	past	Christina's father	a whole bundle of eels and a sucking pig			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
3	suck	gerund					vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	place	past · passive		a sucking pig	a basket in the stern of the boat	all property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in basket=Destination

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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