Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 11
Where Heaven sends food for two, a third can manage to find a meal, and in the depth of the sea there is many a dish of fish for the hungry.
Who acts: Heaven, third, many · What happens: send, manage, find, be · To what, where: food, meal, depth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, third, many), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 sends | advmod |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 manage | advcl |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 two | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sends | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 third | det |
| 9 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 manage | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 manage | aux |
| 11 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 manage | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 meal | det |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 is | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 depth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 depth | det |
| 20 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depth | nmod |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 manage | conj |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 is | nsubj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dish | det |
| 28 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 many | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fish | case |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dish | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 hungry | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hungry | det |
| 33 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dish | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | Heaven | food | for two | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 2 | manage | can | a third | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | a third not said here | a meal | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | present | many | the depth of the sea; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in depth=Location |
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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