Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 21
They poured beer into a stocking that he could drink with them, but quick.
Who acts: wine, reason · What happens: pour, drink · To what, where: beer, stocking
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wine, reason), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 poured | nsubj |
| 2 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poured | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 stocking | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stocking | det |
| 6 | stocking | stocking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poured | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 drink | aux |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 poured | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drink | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 quick | cc |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 poured | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | wine | beer | a stocking | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent beer=Theme into stocking=Destination | |||
| 2 | drink | could | reason | with wine | 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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