Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 117
They make a mummy of him, and stuff him with spices.
Who acts: Egyptians · What happens: make, stuff · To what, where: mummy, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptians), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mummy | det |
| 4 | mummy | mummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mummy | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuff | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stuff | cc |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stuff | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spices | case |
| 12 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stuff | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Egyptians = egyptian | a mummy of air | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mummy=Product | ||||
| 2 | stuff | infinitive | Egyptians = egyptian not said here | air | with spices | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with spice=Theme |
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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