Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 22
Here a quantity of provisions were given him to carry.
What happens: give, carry · To what, where: quantity, boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 7 given | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 quantity | det |
| 3 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 provisions | case |
| 5 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 quantity | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 given | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 given | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | a quantity of provisions | boy | here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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