Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 52

The woman dared not say anything; so she placed the things before them, and they both ate of the fish, the meat, and the pastry.

Who acts: woman, things · What happens: not dare, not say, place, eat · To what, where: anything, things, pastry · Speech: someone speaks here

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, things), 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 dared	nsubj
3	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 dared	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dared	xcomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 say	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 placed	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 placed	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 placed	nsubj
10	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dared	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 things	det
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 placed	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	nsubj
18	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 ate	nsubj
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dared	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 fish	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fish	det
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 meat	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meat	det
25	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fish	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pastry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pastry	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pastry	det
29	pastry	pastry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not dare	past	the woman				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	infinitive	the woman not said here	anything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	place	past	woman	the things	before things = thing		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme before they=Destination
4	eat	past	things = thing	the pastry		of the fish and the meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fish=Source

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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