--- title: But he forced her to get up and bathe her face, and put a wreath of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Eveni --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/94/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Third Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/94/) / 17 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:94:17 # text = 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. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 forced force VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bathe bathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wreath wreath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 roses rose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 37 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 38 beside beside ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. 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