Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 53
“Lend me your Galoshes,” said he; “it is so wet in the garden, though the sun is shining most invitingly.
Who acts: Gave, door, sun · What happens: lend, say, be, shine · To what, where: Galoshes, Gave, garden · 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: who acts (Gave, door, sun), 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 | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
| 2 | Lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Lend | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Galoshes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Galoshes | galosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Lend | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lend | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wet | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wet | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wet | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wet | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 wet | advmod |
| 15 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 garden | det |
| 18 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wet | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shining | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 shining | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shining | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 shining | aux |
| 24 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 invitingly | advmod |
| 26 | invitingly | invitingly | ADV | _ | 24 shining | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend in a quote | infinitive | your Galoshes | Gave | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient galosh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gave | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | door | the garden | wet property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shine in a quote | present · progressive | the sun | invitingly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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: «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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