English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 24

His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woeful state, put him into a teacup, and soon washed off the batter; after which she kissed him, and laid him in bed.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, see, put, wash off, kiss, lay · To what, where: darling, woeful state, Tom, teacup, batter, bed

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorry	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sorry	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sorry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sorry	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sorry	advmod
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sorry	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 darling	nmod:poss
11	darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 state	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 state	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 state	det
15	woeful	woeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 state	amod
16	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 teacup	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 teacup	det
22	teacup	teacup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 washed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 washed	cc
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 washed	advmod
26	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sorry	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	29 batter	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 batter	det
29	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 washed	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 kissed	punct
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 kissed	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kissed	nsubj
34	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 washed	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kissed	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 laid	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laid	cc
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kissed	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 laid	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 bed	case
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Tom's mother				sorry property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Tom's mother not said here	mother's darling		such woeful state		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer darling=Stimulus
3	put	infinitive	Tom's mother not said here		Tom	a teacup		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
4	wash off	participle		the batter			soon property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent batter=Patient
5	kiss	past	mother	Tom				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
6	lay	past	mother not said here	Tom		bed		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in bed=Destination

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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