Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 102

But they kept her after all; and George drew pictures and sent them to her.

Who acts: hymns, George · What happens: keep, draw, send · To what, where: wife, pictures, hymns

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hymns, George), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 kept	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 kept	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 drew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 George	cc
9	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 drew	nsubj
10	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	parataxis
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 drew	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sent	cc
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 drew	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	keep	past	hymns = hymn	wife		after all	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	draw	past	George	pictures			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	send	past	George not said here	hymns = hymn	wife		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Destination

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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