Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 7

He gave himself up entirely to the race, and ran with his house on his back, which was all, of course, very praiseworthy; and therefore he obtained the second prize."

Who acts: snail · What happens: give up, run, obtain · To what, where: snail, back, second prize

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 gave	iobj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 race	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 race	det
8	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 house	nmod:poss
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 back	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 back	nmod:poss
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 all	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	cop
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 back	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 praiseworthy	punct
23	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	27 praiseworthy	advmod
24	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 of	fixed
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 praiseworthy	punct
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 praiseworthy	advmod
27	praiseworthy	praiseworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ran	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 obtained	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 obtained	cc
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	32 obtained	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 obtained	nsubj
32	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 prize	det
34	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 prize	amod
35	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 obtained	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 obtained	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give up	past	snail		snail		to the race; entirely property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to race=Recipient
2	run	past				snail's back	with snail's house	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	obtain	past	snail	the second prize			therefore property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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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