Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 7

Here dwelt a newly married couple who completely gave themselves up to the charm of life; indeed they possessed every good thing they could desire--health and happiness, riches and honour.

Who acts: married couple, youths · What happens: dwell, marry, give up, possess, desire · To what, where: married couple, youths, charm, good thing, health

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, 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 (married couple, youths), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 dwelt	advmod
2	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 couple	det
4	newly	newly	ADV	_	5 married	advmod
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelt	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gave	nsubj
8	completely	completely	ADV	_	9 gave	advmod
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 couple	acl:relcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 gave	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 gave	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 charm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 charm	det
14	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 life	case
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 charm	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 possessed	punct
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 possessed	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 possessed	nsubj
20	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dwelt	conj
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 thing	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 possessed	obj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 desire	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 desire	aux
26	desire	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thing	acl:relcl
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 health	punct
28	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 desire	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 happiness	cc
30	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 health	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 riches	punct
32	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 health	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 honour	cc
34	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 health	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a married couple		here		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location
2	marry	participle					newly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	give up	past	a married couple	youths = youth	the charm of life		completely property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to charm=Recipient
4	possess	past	youths = youth	every good thing			indeed property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
5	desire	could	youths = youth	health and happiness and riches and honour				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot health=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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