Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 41
The others nodded, and picked up the feather dress, and took possession of it.
Who acts: others · What happens: nod, pick up, take, possess · To what, where: feather dress, possession
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 picked | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 picked | cc |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nodded | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dress | compound |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 14 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 possession | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the others | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the others not said here | the feather dress | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the others not said here | possession of possession | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | possession | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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