Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 27
Then the witch placed her cauldron on the fire, to prepare the magic draught.
Who acts: witch · What happens: place, prepare · To what, where: cauldron, fire, magic draught
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 placed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cauldron | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prepare | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prepare | mark |
| 12 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 placed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 draught | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 draught | amod |
| 15 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepare | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the witch | witch's cauldron | the fire | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme on fire=Destination | ||
| 2 | prepare | to-infinitive | the witch not said here | the magic draught | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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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