Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 18

They were very good to the poor; they fed them and clothed them, and in their benevolence there was judgment as well as true Christianity.

Who acts: people · What happens: be, feed, clothe · To what, where: passers, people, benevolence judgment

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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	4 good	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 good	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 poor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 poor	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 good	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fed	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fed	nsubj
10	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 good	parataxis
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 clothed	cc
13	clothed	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fed	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 clothed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 judgment	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 judgment	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 benevolence	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 benevolence	nmod:poss
19	benevolence	benevolence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 judgment	compound
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 benevolence	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 judgment	cop
22	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 good	conj
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 true	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	as	as	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
26	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 judgment	acl:relcl
27	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 true	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	people		to the poor; good property	tree rules
2	feed	past	people	passers = passer		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	clothe	past	people not said here	people		vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	is a	past	people not said here	benevolence judgment		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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