Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 18

Grandfather was the possessor of one of these glasses, which had been given him by a working mason, who had managed to catch it.

Who acts: Grandfather, working mason · What happens: be, give, work, manage, catch · To what, where: possessor, glasses, oldest, mason

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandfather, working mason), 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	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 possessor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 possessor	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 possessor	det
4	possessor	possessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 possessor	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 glasses	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 glasses	det
9	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 given	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 given	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 given	aux:pass
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 glasses	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	iobj
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 mason	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mason	det
18	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mason	amod
19	mason	mason	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 given	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 managed	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 managed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 managed	aux
23	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 mason	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 catch	mark
25	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 managed	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 catch	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 possessor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Grandfather	the possessor		of one of this glasses	tree rules
2	give	past · perfect · passive	a working mason	this glasses	oldest = old		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	manage	past · perfect	a working mason				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	catch	to-infinitive	a working mason not said here	mason			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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