Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 17
But he forced her to get up and bathe her face, and put a wreath of roses in her hair; and he placed her in a chair at the window, with a candle burning beside her, and went away.
Who acts: death, coverlet, candle · What happens: force, get up, bathe, put, place, burn · To what, where: coverlet, face, wreath, hair, chair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, coverlet, candle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 forced | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forced | nsubj |
| 3 | forced | force | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forced | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forced | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 get | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bathe | cc |
| 9 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bathe | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 get | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wreath | det |
| 16 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 roses | case |
| 18 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wreath | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 placed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 placed | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 placed | nsubj |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forced | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 placed | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 chair | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chair | det |
| 29 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 placed | obl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 window | det |
| 32 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 placed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 candle | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 candle | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 candle | det |
| 36 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 placed | obl |
| 37 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 candle | acl |
| 38 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 burning | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forced | conj |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past | death | coverlet | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up | to-infinitive | coverlet not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bathe | infinitive | coverlet not said here | coverlet's face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | coverlet not said here | a wreath of roses | coverlet's hair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme in hair=Destination | |||
| 5 | place | past | death | coverlet | a chair | at the window; with a candle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in chair=Destination | ||
| 6 | burn | gerund | a candle not said here | beside coverlet | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside she=Location | ||||
| 7 | go away | past | death not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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