Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 80

He had a cold, which caused him to use his pocket-handkerchief continually; and yet he said he was obliged to accompany servant girls to their new places, and initiate them into their winter service.

Who acts: owner, cold, girls · What happens: have, cause, use, say, oblige, accompany · To what, where: cold, owner, pocket handkerchief, servant girls, new places, girls · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (owner, cold, girls), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 caused	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 caused	nsubj
7	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 caused	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 use	mark
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 caused	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 handkerchief	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 handkerchief	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 pocket	punct
14	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj
15	continually	continually	ADV	_	10 use	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	20 said	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 obliged	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 obliged	aux:pass
23	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 said	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 accompany	mark
25	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 obliged	xcomp
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 girls	compound
27	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 accompany	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 places	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 places	nmod:poss
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 places	amod
31	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 accompany	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 initiate	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 initiate	cc
34	initiate	initiate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 initiate	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	39 service	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 service	nmod:poss
38	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 service	compound
39	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 initiate	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	owner	a cold				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
2	cause	past	a cold	owner				tree rules
3	use	to-infinitive	owner not said here	owner's pocket handkerchief			continually property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	owner			yet		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	oblige	past · passive		owner				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	accompany	to-infinitive		servant girls	girls's new places			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to place=Destination
7	initiate	infinitive		girls = girl	girls's winter service			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
8	service		girls = girl					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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