Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 123
“To him, at least, who slumbers here, they have brought an imperishable blessing,” answered the other.
What happens: bring, answer · To what, where: slumbers, other · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 least | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 least | case |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 him | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 here | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 here | nsubj |
| 9 | slumbers | slumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 here | nsubj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 him | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 here | parataxis |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blessing | det |
| 16 | imperishable | imperishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blessing | amod |
| 17 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brought | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 him | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 answered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | slumbers = slumber | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination blessing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the other | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
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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