Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 29
The gift of laughing was given to man alone.
What happens: give, gift · To what, where: gift, man, laughing
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 laughing | case |
| 4 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gift | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 given | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the gift of laughing | man | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | gift | laughing | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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