Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 77

And from the General's apartment there arrived a hymn-book bound in morocco, sent by the little lady to whom George had given pictures.

Who acts: George · What happens: arrive, bind, send, give · To what, where: hymn book, apartment, morocco, pictures

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), 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	_	8 arrived	cc
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 apartment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 General	det
4	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 apartment	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 General	case
6	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 arrived	advmod
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 book	det
10	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 book	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hymn	punct
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obj
13	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 book	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 morocco	case
15	morocco	morocco	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bound	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sent	punct
17	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 arrived	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 lady	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lady	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lady	amod
21	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sent	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whom	case
23	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lady	nmod
24	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 given	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 whom	acl:relcl
27	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 given	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past		a hymn book	the General's apartment; there		tree rules
2	bind	participle		a hymn book not said here	morocco		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	send	participle				by the little lady	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	give	past · perfect	George	pictures			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme

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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