Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 138
The tailor gave me new clothes; I am well provided for in that way.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: give, provide · To what, where: new clothes, me, I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor), 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 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clothes | amod |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 provided | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 provided | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 provided | aux:pass |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 provided | advmod |
| 11 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provided | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the tailor | new clothes | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 2 | provide | present · passive | I | for that way; well property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for way=Beneficiary |
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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