Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 124

On the high bank of earth, which formed a dyke on the sea-coast, a poor woman named Margaret wished to build herself a house, so all the imperfect bricks were given to her, and a few whole ones with them; for the eldest brother was a kind-hearted man, although he never achieved anything higher than making bricks.

Who acts: earth, poor woman, eldest brother, man · What happens: form, name, wish, build, give, be · To what, where: dyke, sea coast, poor woman, few whole ones, high bank, woman

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, poor woman, eldest brother, man), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 bank	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bank	amod
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wished	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 earth	case
6	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bank	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 formed	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 formed	nsubj
9	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 earth	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dyke	det
11	dyke	dyke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 formed	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 coast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coast	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 coast	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 formed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 woman	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wished	nsubj
21	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 woman	acl
22	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 named	xcomp
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	PART	_	25 build	mark
25	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wished	xcomp
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 build	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 build	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 given	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	36 given	advmod
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 bricks	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bricks	det
33	imperfect	imperfect	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bricks	compound
34	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 given	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 given	aux:pass
36	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wished	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 given	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ones	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 ones	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 ones	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ones	amod
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ones	amod
44	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wished	obl
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 ones	nmod
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 man	punct
48	for	for	ADP	_	57 man	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 brother	det
50	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 brother	amod
51	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 man	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 man	cop
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 man	det
54	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 hearted	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 kind	punct
56	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 man	amod
57	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wished	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 achieved	punct
59	although	although	SCONJ	_	62 achieved	mark
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 achieved	nsubj
61	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	62 achieved	advmod
62	achieved	achieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 wished	conj
63	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	62 achieved	obj
64	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	63 anything	amod
65	than	than	SCONJ	_	66 making	mark
66	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 higher	advcl
67	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 making	obj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	form	past	earth	a dyke		the sea coast		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dyke=Theme
2	name	participle		a poor woman not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wish	past	a poor woman	a few whole ones with bricks		the high bank of earth		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	build not said to happen	to-infinitive	a poor woman not said here	woman				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary house=Product
5	give	past · passive		all imperfect bricks	woman			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient
6	is	past	the eldest brother				for a hearted man	tree rules
7	not achieve	past	man	anything				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
8	make	gerund	man not said here	bricks				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brick=Product

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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