Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 44

The woman received them both very kindly, laid the cloth on a large table, and placed before them a dish of porridge.

Who acts: woman · What happens: receive, lay, place · To what, where: wine, cloth, large table, dish

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 (woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	appos
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kindly	advmod
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cloth	det
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 table	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 table	amod
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 placed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 placed	cc
18	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 received	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 placed	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dish	det
22	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 placed	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 porridge	case
24	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dish	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the woman	wine			kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	lay	past	the woman not said here	the cloth	a large table			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme on table=Destination
3	place	participle	the woman not said here	a dish of porridge		before wine		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme before they=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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