Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 64
They also divided the pips and ate all but one, which the little girl proposed should be placed in the ground.
Who acts: children · What happens: divide, eat, propose, place · To what, where: pips, all, little girl, ground
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 divided | advmod |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pips | det |
| 5 | pips | pip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 divided | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | conj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 one | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 all | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 placed | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girl | acl |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 placed | aux:pass |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | children = child | the pips | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | children = child not said here | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 3 | propose | participle | the little girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | place | should · passive | the little girl | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme which=Destination |
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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