Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 141
And now came the present; but the bridal pair had nothing to eat, for love was to be their food.
Who acts: present, bridal pair, love · What happens: come, have, eat, be · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, bridal pair, love), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 present | det |
| 5 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pair | det |
| 9 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pair | amod |
| 10 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 food | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 food | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 food | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 food | cop |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 food | nmod:poss |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the present | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the bridal pair | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the bridal pair not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | love | for presents's food | 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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