Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 3

His mother undressed him, put him to bed, and ordered the teapot to be brought in, that she might make him a good cup of tea from the elder-tree blossoms, which is so warming.

Who acts: mother, tree blossoms · What happens: undress, put, order, bring in, make, warm · To what, where: boy, teapot, good cup, tree blossoms

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 (mother, tree blossoms), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undressed	nsubj
3	undressed	undress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 undressed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 undressed	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ordered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ordered	cc
12	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 undressed	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 teapot	det
14	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ordered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 brought	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 brought	aux:pass
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 teapot	acl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 brought	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 make	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ordered	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cup	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cup	amod
27	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 tea	case
29	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cup	nmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	35 blossoms	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 blossoms	det
32	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tree	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 elder	punct
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 blossoms	compound
35	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 make	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 warming	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 warming	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 warming	aux
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 warming	advmod
40	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 blossoms	appos
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	undress	past	boy's mother	boy				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	put	infinitive	boy's mother not said here		boy		to bed	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
3	order	past		the teapot				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teapot=Theme
4	bring in	to-infinitive · passive		the teapot not said here				vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»
5	make	might	mother	a good cup of tea	boy	the tree blossoms		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary cup=Product from blossom=Material
6	warm	present · progressive	the tree blossoms					vn other_cos-45.4 «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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