Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 58
George had divided his bread and butter with little Emily, and he would have divided his heart with her, if it would have pleased her.
Who acts: George, heart · What happens: divide, please · To what, where: bread, heart, Emily
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 (George, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:9496): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 divided | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divided | aux |
| 3 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bread | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 divided | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 butter | cc |
| 7 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bread | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Emily | case |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Emily | amod |
| 10 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 divided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 divided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 divided | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 divided | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 divided | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 divided | aux |
| 16 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 divided | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 divided | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 divided | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 pleased | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pleased | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pleased | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 pleased | aux |
| 26 | pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 divided | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pleased | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past · perfect | George | George's bread and butter | with little Emily | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bread=Patient with emily=Instrument | |||
| 2 | divide | would · perfect | George | George's heart | with Emily | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heart=Patient with she=Instrument | |||
| 3 | please a condition, not said to happen | would · perfect | heart | Emily | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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