Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 36
The eel-breeder was a witty fellow, a merry guest, and brought a measure of brandy with him.
Who acts: eel breeder · What happens: be, bring, measure · To what, where: witty fellow, measure, brandy
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 (eel breeder), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 breeder | det |
| 2 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breeder | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 eel | punct |
| 4 | breeder | breeder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fellow | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fellow | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 7 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guest | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 guest | det |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 guest | amod |
| 12 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fellow | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fellow | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 measure | det |
| 17 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brandy | case |
| 19 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 measure | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the eel breeder | a witty fellow and a merry guest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the eel breeder not said here | a measure of brandy | with guest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent measure=Theme | |||
| 3 | measure | brandy | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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