Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 5

Nature had intended him for it, and had provided him with a hump on his back, and another on his breast; but his inward man, his mind, on the contrary, was richly furnished.

Who acts: public · What happens: intend, provide, furnish, mind · To what, where: Nature, public

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public), 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	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 intended	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 intended	aux
3	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 intended	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 intended	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 provided	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 provided	cc
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 provided	aux
10	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 intended	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 provided	iobj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hump	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hump	det
14	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provided	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hump	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 another	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 another	cc
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 hump	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 breast	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breast	nmod:poss
23	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 another	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 man	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 man	nmod:poss
27	inward	inward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 intended	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mind	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mind	nmod:poss
31	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	vocative
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 furnished	punct
33	on	on	SCONJ	_	39 furnished	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 furnished	det
35	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 furnished	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 contrary	punct
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 furnished	aux:pass
38	richly	richly	ADV	_	39 furnished	advmod
39	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 intended	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	intend	past · perfect · passive		Nature		for art; public's inward man obl	tree rules
2	provide	past · perfect			public	with a hump on public's back	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with hump=Theme
3	furnish	past · passive				richly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	mind		public				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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