Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 93
Surely the wind had given him an excellent gift.
What happens: give · To what, where: wind, watchman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | iobj |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gift | det |
| 8 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gift | amod |
| 9 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the wind | watchman | surely 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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