Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 9

One spoke of stinginess, the other of vanity, and the blacking became the black cause of enmity between them, and at last they parted.

Who acts: One, blacking, boots · What happens: speak, become, part, cause · To what, where: black cause, last, enmity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, blacking, boots), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 stinginess	case
4	stinginess	stinginess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 other	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 other	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stinginess	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 vanity	case
9	vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 other	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 blacking	det
13	blacking	blacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	nsubj
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cause	det
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cause	amod
17	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 became	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 enmity	case
19	enmity	enmity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cause	nmod
20	between	between	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 enmity	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 parted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 parted	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 parted	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 parted	nsubj
27	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	One			of stinginess	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	the blacking	the black cause of enmity between boots			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	part	past	boots = boot		last		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	cause			enmity between boots			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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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