Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 41
"Yes, just so," said the maiden, as she poured out some more wine, and held it to his lips.
Who acts: nature · What happens: say, pour out, hold · To what, where: maiden, more wine, wine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nature), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 so | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Yes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poured | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 poured | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | nsubj |
| 14 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 poured | compound:prt |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 wine | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 wine | amod |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poured | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 held | cc |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poured | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 held | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 lips | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lips | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pour out | past | nature | some more wine | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | nature not said here | wine | to Maiden's lips | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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