Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 11

He enticed me with bread-crumbs, with whistling, and with gentle words, and seemed so friendly towards me, that by degrees I gained confidence in him, and we became friends; he divided his bread and water with me, gave me cheese and sausage, and I really began to love him.

Who acts: hole, I, we · What happens: entice, seem, gain, become, divide, give · To what, where: me, confidence, friends, bread, cheese, hole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hole, I, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 enticed	nsubj
2	enticed	entice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 enticed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 crumbs	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crumbs	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bread	punct
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 enticed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whistling	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 whistling	case
10	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crumbs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 words	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 words	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 words	case
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crumbs	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enticed	parataxis
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 friendly	advmod
20	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seemed	xcomp
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 friendly	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 that	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 seemed	xcomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 degrees	case
26	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gained	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 gained	nsubj
28	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seemed	parataxis
29	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gained	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gained	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 became	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 became	cc
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 became	nsubj
35	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enticed	conj
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 became	xcomp
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 divided	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 divided	nsubj
39	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enticed	parataxis
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bread	nmod:poss
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 divided	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 water	cc
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bread	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 divided	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 gave	punct
47	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 divided	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 gave	iobj
49	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 gave	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sausage	cc
51	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 cheese	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 began	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 began	cc
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 began	nsubj
55	really	really	ADV	_	56 began	advmod
56	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 divided	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 love	mark
58	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 began	xcomp
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 love	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 enticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	entice	past	hole	me		with bread crumbs and whistling and gentle words	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
2	seem	past				friendly property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	gain	past	I	confidence		by degrees; in hole	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient confidence=Extent in he=Attribute
4	become	past	we	friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	divide	past	hole	hole's bread and water		with me	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bread=Patient with i=Instrument
6	give	past	hole not said here	cheese and sausage	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cheese=Theme
7	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	love	to-infinitive	I not said here	hole			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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