Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 100

The last ingredient played a very prominent part in the salad; stale eggs and roasted cocks'-combs furnished the grand dish of the repast; the wine even was not without a disgusting taste--it was like a medicinal draught.

Who acts: last ingredient, combs, ingredient · What happens: play, roast, furnish, not be, be · To what, where: prominent part, salad, grand dish

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last ingredient, combs, ingredient), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ingredient	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ingredient	amod
3	ingredient	ingredient	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 part	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 prominent	advmod
7	prominent	prominent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 part	amod
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 salad	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 salad	det
11	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 part	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 eggs	punct
13	stale	stale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eggs	amod
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 roasted	cc
16	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
17	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 combs	nmod:poss
18	'	's	PART	_	17 cocks	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 combs	punct
20	combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 furnished	nsubj
21	furnished	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 roasted	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dish	det
23	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dish	amod
24	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 furnished	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 repast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 repast	det
27	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dish	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 wine	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wine	det
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	conj
31	even	even	ADV	_	37 taste	advmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 taste	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 taste	advmod
34	without	without	ADP	_	37 taste	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 taste	det
36	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 taste	amod
37	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wine	nmod
38	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 draught	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 draught	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 draught	cop
41	like	like	ADP	_	44 draught	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 draught	det
43	medicinal	medicinal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 draught	amod
44	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 taste	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	the last ingredient	a prominent part	the salad	stale eggs obl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	roast	past	the last ingredient not said here				tree rules
3	furnish	past	cocks's combs	the grand dish of the repast			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Recipient
4	not is	past				without a disgusting taste and a medicinal draught	tree rules
5	is	past	ingredient			like a medicinal draught	tree rules

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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