Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 99

So the boy stayed with them, and the woman herself taught him to sew; and he ate well, and slept well, and became very merry.

Who acts: boy, woman · What happens: stay, teach, sew, eat, sleep, become · To what, where: boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, woman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 taught	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 taught	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taught	nsubj
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 taught	nsubj
12	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 taught	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sew	mark
15	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 taught	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	nsubj
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ate	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 slept	cc
23	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 slept	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 merry	advmod
29	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the boy		with fingers = finger	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
2	teach speech: other	past	the woman	boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sew	to-infinitive	the woman not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	eat	past	boy		well property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past	the boy not said here		well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	become	past	the boy not said here		merry property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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