Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 33

They wanted a maypole, and the one they now had seemed cut out on purpose for them.

Who acts: people · What happens: want, have, cut out · To what, where: maypole, one, purpose

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 maypole	det
4	maypole	maypole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cut	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	nsubj:pass
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	acl:relcl
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux:pass
13	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 cut	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	people	a maypole				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot maypole=Theme
2	have	past	people	the one not said here		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	cut out	past · passive		the one	purpose		for people	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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