Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 18

"Will not one knock soon?" asked the boy; and the mother smiled while she put elder-tree blossoms into the teapot and poured boiling water over them. "

Who acts: one knock, mother · What happens: ask, smile, put, pour, boil · To what, where: boy, tree blossoms, teapot, boiling water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one knock, mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 knock	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 knock	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 knock	nummod
5	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 knock	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 knock	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 smiled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 smiled	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mother	det
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smiled	nsubj
16	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 put	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
19	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 smiled	advcl
20	elder	eld	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 blossoms	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 elder	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blossoms	compound
23	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 teapot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 teapot	det
26	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 poured	cc
28	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
29	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 water	amod
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 poured	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 poured	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 poured	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	one knock		the boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	smile	past	the mother					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	mother	tree blossoms		the teapot		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent blossom=Goal
4	pour	past		boiling water			over blossoms = blossom	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
5	boil	gerund						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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