Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 4
They were given him for a birthday present, and he stood at the table to set them up.
Who acts: lid · What happens: give, stand, set up · To what, where: brothers, lid, table
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lid), 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 | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 present | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | compound |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 table | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stood | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | brothers = brother | lid | for a birthday present | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme for present=Asset | |||
| 2 | stand | past | lid | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||||
| 3 | set up | to-infinitive | lid not said here | brothers = brother | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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