Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 32

He caused him to be yoked with his oxen to the plough, and driven with blows from the whip till the blood flowed, and he almost sunk with exhaustion and pain.

Who acts: story, blood · What happens: cause, yoke, drive, flow, sunk · To what, where: knight, whip

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, blood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 yoked	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 yoked	aux:pass
6	yoked	yoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 caused	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 oxen	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 oxen	nmod:poss
9	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 yoked	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 plough	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plough	det
12	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yoked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 driven	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 driven	cc
15	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 yoked	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 blows	case
17	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 driven	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 whip	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whip	det
20	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 driven	obl
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 flowed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 blood	det
23	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flowed	nsubj
24	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 driven	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sunk	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sunk	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sunk	nsubj
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	29 sunk	advmod
29	sunk	sunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 exhaustion	case
31	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sunk	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pain	cc
33	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 exhaustion	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	story	knight			tree rules
2	yoke	to-infinitive · passive	story not said here			with story's oxen; to the plough	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: with ox=Instrument to plough=Co-Patient
3	drive	participle			the whip	with blows	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from whip=Trajectory
4	flow	past	the blood				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sunk	present	story			with exhaustion and pain; almost property	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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