Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 155

It gave him the opportunity of having the last word, which to him was of great importance.

Who acts: critic, opportunity, last word · What happens: give, have, be · To what, where: opportunity, widow, last word

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 (critic, opportunity, last word), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 opportunity	det
5	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 opportunity	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 importance	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 importance	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 which	obl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 importance	cop
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 importance	case
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 importance	amod
18	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 word	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	critic	the opportunity	widow		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient opportunity=Theme
2	have	gerund	the opportunity not said here	the last word			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	is	past	the last word			of great importance	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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