Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 90

Fritters, that a king would have looked upon as a dainty dish, were placed on the table, and there was wine from the Skjagen vineyard--that is, the sea; for there the grapes come ashore ready pressed and prepared in barrels and in bottles.

Who acts: king, wine, that, grapes · What happens: look, place, be, come, press, prepare · To what, where: Fritters, table, sea, barrels

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 (king, wine, that, grapes), 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	Fritters	fritter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 looked	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 looked	aux
8	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Fritters	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 dish	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 dish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dish	det
12	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dish	compound
13	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fritters	punct
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	aux:pass
16	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 table	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 table	det
19	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 was	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	parataxis
24	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 was	nsubj
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 vineyard	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 vineyard	det
27	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 vineyard	compound
28	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wine	nmod
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 sea	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 sea	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sea	cop
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sea	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sea	det
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 there	case
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 come	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 grapes	det
39	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 come	nsubj
40	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	conj
41	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 come	xcomp
43	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 ready	xcomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 prepared	cc
45	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 pressed	conj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 barrels	case
47	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 prepared	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 bottles	cc
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 bottles	case
50	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 barrels	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	would · perfect	a king	Fritters not said here		upon a dainty dish	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fritter=Attribute
2	place	past · passive		Fritters	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination
3	be	past	wine from the Skjagen vineyard		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	that	the sea			tree rules
5	come	present	the grapes			ashore, ready property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	press	participle	the grapes not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	prepare	participle	the grapes not said here		barrels and bottles		vn establish-55.5-1 «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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