Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 52

I gave them wine, and they gave me muddy water," he had said to himself, "but I suppose it was all well meant."

Who acts: I, people, water, glass · What happens: give, say, suppose, be · To what, where: wine, people, muddy water, me, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people, water, glass), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 gave	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 suppose	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 suppose	nsubj
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 meant	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 meant	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	28 meant	advmod
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 meant	advmod
28	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 suppose	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	I	wine	people		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient wine=Theme
2	give	past	people	muddy water	me		tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past · perfect	water		water		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	is	past	glass			all, mean, well property	tree rules

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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