Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 79
She and her whole household therefore busied themselves in preparing everything for the reception of her lord.
Who acts: child · What happens: busy, prepare, receive · To what, where: husband, everything, lord
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 (child), 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 | 7 busied | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 household | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 household | nmod:poss |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 household | amod |
| 5 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 busied | advmod |
| 7 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 busied | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 preparing | mark |
| 10 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 busied | advcl |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 preparing | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 reception | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reception | det |
| 14 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 preparing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lord | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lord | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reception | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 busied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | busy | past | child | husband | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prepare | gerund | child not said here | everything | for the reception of child's lord | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for reception=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | receive | child's lord | nom reception «communication 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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