Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 33

And so at the Viking's house they stayed, and enjoyed themselves; and at night the bondmen slept in the ashes, and dipped their fingers in the fat, and licked them.

Who acts: men, bondmen · What happens: stay, enjoy, sleep, dip, lick · To what, where: house, men, ashes, fingers, fat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, bondmen), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 stayed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	9 stayed	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Viking	det
5	Viking	Viking	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Viking	case
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enjoyed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 enjoyed	cc
12	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 enjoyed	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slept	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bondmen	det
19	bondmen	bondman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ashes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ashes	det
23	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 slept	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dipped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dipped	cc
26	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fingers	nmod:poss
28	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dipped	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fat	det
31	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dipped	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 licked	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 licked	cc
34	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 licked	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stay	past	men = man		the Viking's house		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location
2	enjoy	past	men = man not said here	men = man			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
3	sleep	past	the bondmen		the ashes	night	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ash=Location
4	dip	past	men = man not said here	men's fingers	the fat		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in fat=Trajectory
5	lick	past	men = man not said here	men = man			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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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