Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 27

She wanted to fetch the pretty bed, that she might put it in the bridal chamber to be ready for her.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: want, fetch, put, be · To what, where: pretty bed, bed, bridal chamber

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bed	det
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bed	amod
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 put	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fetch	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 chamber	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chamber	det
16	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chamber	amod
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 ready	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 ready	cop
20	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 put	advcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ready	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	daughter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	daughter not said here	the pretty bed			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme
3	put	might	daughter	bed	the bridal chamber		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in chamber=Destination
4	is	to-infinitive	daughter not said here			for daughter; ready property	tree rules

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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