Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 66

“'Yes; but you gave him a good box on his ear that made it tingle!'

Who acts: you, good box, box · What happens: give, make, tingle · To what, where: good box, sort, ear, box

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good box, box), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 gave	discourse
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 gave	nsubj
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 ear	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ear	nmod:poss
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 box	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	obj
18	tingle	tingle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	you	a good box	sort	sort's ear	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme on ear=Asset
2	make in a quote	past	a good box	box			tree rules
3	tingle in a quote	infinitive	box not said here				vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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