Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 63

She was fat and heated, yet she could use her hands well, and would herself carry out beer to the laborers in the field. "

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, heat, use, carry out · To what, where: hands, beer, field

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	cop
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 heated	cc
5	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fat	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 use	aux
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fat	parataxis
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 use	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carry	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 carry	cc
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	aux
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 carry	nsubj
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 carry	compound:prt
20	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 laborers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 laborers	det
23	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 field	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 field	det
26	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fat	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	mother			fat property	tree rules
2	heat	participle	mother not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	use	could	mother	mother's hands		well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	carry out	would	mother	beer	the field	to the laborers	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Eventuality

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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