Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 17

He spoke to me so mournfully for the last time, gave me double as much bread and cheese as usual, and kissed his hand to me.

Who acts: hole · What happens: speak, give, kiss · To what, where: me, much bread, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 mournfully	advmod
6	mournfully	mournfully	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	double	double	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bread	amod
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cheese	cc
19	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bread	conj
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 usual	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gave	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kissed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kissed	cc
24	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kissed	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 kissed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	hole		me	time	mournfully property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
2	give	past	hole not said here	much bread and cheese	me		as usual	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bread=Theme
3	kiss	past		hole's hand	me			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent

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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