Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 114

She had been cross, unkind, and really spiteful to him; but he was very sorry, and took the dead woman and laid her in his warm bed to see if he could bring her to life again.

Who acts: grandmother, Claus · What happens: be, take, lay, see, bring · To what, where: cross, dead woman, grandmother, warm bed, life

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Claus), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cross	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 cross	cop
4	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 unkind	punct
6	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cross	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spiteful	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 spiteful	cc
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 spiteful	advmod
10	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unkind	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spiteful	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sorry	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 sorry	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sorry	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sorry	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 sorry	advmod
18	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 unkind	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laid	cc
26	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laid	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 bed	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
30	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bed	amod
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laid	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 laid	advcl
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 bring	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bring	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 bring	aux
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 see	ccomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bring	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 life	case
40	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obl
41	again	again	ADV	_	37 bring	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past · perfect	grandmother	cross					tree rules
2	be		grandmother not said here						tree rules
3	is	past	Claus					sorry property	tree rules
4	take	past			the dead woman				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
5	lay	past		grandmother		Claus's warm bed			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bed=Destination
6	see	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	bring a condition, not said to happen	could	Claus	grandmother		life	again		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=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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