Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 34

In consequence of this dislike, the sexton had gone to visit the farmer's wife during her husband's absence from home, and the good woman had placed before him the best she had in the house to eat.

Who acts: sexton, best, husband · What happens: go, visit, place, have, eat, absent · To what, where: consequence, wife, home, good woman, house

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 (sexton, best, husband), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 consequence	case
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dislike	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 dislike	det
5	dislike	dislike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consequence	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 consequence	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sexton	det
8	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 visit	mark
12	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gone	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 farmer	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	obj
17	during	during	ADP	_	21 absence	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 absence	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 husband	case
21	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 placed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 placed	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	aux
30	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gone	conj
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 best	det
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 had	nsubj
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	parataxis
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 house	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 house	det
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the sexton		consequence of this dislike		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	visit	to-infinitive	the sexton not said here	the farmer's wife	home	during sexton's husband's absence	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent
3	place	past · perfect · passive		the good woman		before Claus	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination
4	have	past	the best		the house		tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	the best not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	absent		sexton's husband				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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