Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 55

"The day before yesterday our boy divided his bread and butter with her!" said the porter's wife.

Who acts: boy, wife · What happens: divide, say · To what, where: bread · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, wife), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 divided	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 divided	obl:unmarked
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 yesterday	case
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boy	nmod:poss
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 divided	nsubj
8	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bread	nmod:poss
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 divided	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 butter	cc
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bread	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 divided	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 divided	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 divided	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 porter	det
19	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wife	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 porter	case
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide in a quote	past	our boy	boy's bread and butter			day	with Emily	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bread=Patient with she=Instrument
2	say speech: express	past	the porter's wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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