Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 62

The burgomaster gave him two dollars for travelling expenses, and many citizens offered him provisions and beer--there were still good people; they were not all hard and pitiless.

Who acts: burgomaster, many citizens, good people, people · What happens: give, offer, be, not be · To what, where: two dollars, compensation, provisions

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (burgomaster, many citizens, good people, people), 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	2 burgomaster	det
2	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dollars	nummod
6	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 expenses	case
8	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expenses	compound
9	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dollars	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 offered	cc
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 citizens	amod
13	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 offered	nsubj
14	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offered	iobj
16	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 offered	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beer	cc
18	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 provisions	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 provisions	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 were	nsubj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hard	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hard	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hard	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hard	advmod
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 hard	advmod
30	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pitiless	cc
32	pitiless	pitiless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hard	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the burgomaster	two dollars	compensation		for travelling expenses	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dollar=Theme for expense=Asset
2	offer	past	many citizens	provisions and beer	compensation			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal provision=Theme
3	be	past	good people			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	past	people				all, hard property	tree rules
5	be		people not said here					tree rules

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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