Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 37

They all received a small glassful or a cupful if there were not enough glasses; even Jurgen had about a thimbleful, that he might digest the fat eel, as the eel-breeder said; he always told one story over and over again, and if his hearers laughed he would immediately repeat it to them.

Who acts: fellow, enough glasses, Jurgen, eel breeder, breeder, hearers · What happens: receive, be, have, digest, say, tell · To what, where: small glassful, fat eel, one story, thimbleful, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fellow, enough glasses, Jurgen, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 They	det
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 glassful	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glassful	amod
6	glassful	glassful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 cupful	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cupful	det
9	cupful	cupful	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glassful	conj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 glasses	advmod
14	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 glasses	amod
15	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	18 Jurgen	advmod
18	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	parataxis
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 thimbleful	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thimbleful	det
22	thimbleful	thimbleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 digest	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 digest	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 digest	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 digest	aux
27	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eel	det
29	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eel	compound
30	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 digest	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 said	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 breeder	det
34	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 breeder	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 eel	punct
36	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 digest	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 told	nsubj
40	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 told	advmod
41	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	parataxis
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 story	nummod
43	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 told	obj
44	over	over	ADV	_	41 told	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 again	cc
46	over	over	ADV	_	47 again	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	44 over	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 laughed	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 laughed	cc
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 laughed	mark
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 hearers	nmod:poss
52	hearers	hearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 laughed	nsubj
53	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 told	conj
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 repeat	nsubj
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 repeat	aux
56	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	57 repeat	advmod
57	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 laughed	ccomp
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 repeat	obj
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 repeat	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	fellow	a small glassful or a cupful				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glassful=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	enough glasses			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Jurgen				about a thimbleful	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	digest	might	Jurgen	the fat eel				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the eel breeder					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	past	breeder	one story			always, over property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
7	laugh a condition, not said to happen	past	breeder's hearers					tree rules
8	repeat	would	breeder	thimbleful	fellow		immediately property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to they=Recipient

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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