Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 34
However, the wine was excellent, and we clanked our glasses together as we drank.
Who acts: wine, we · What happens: be, clank, drink · To what, where: glasses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wine, we), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 excellent | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wine | det |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 excellent | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 excellent | cop |
| 6 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clanked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 clanked | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 clanked | nsubj |
| 10 | clanked | clank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 excellent | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 clanked | obj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 clanked | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 drank | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 drank | nsubj |
| 16 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 clanked | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 excellent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wine | excellent, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clank | past | we | our glasses | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme | |||
| 3 | drink | past | we | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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