Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 54
However, he passed a very pleasant time; went to the theatre, drove in the king's garden, and gave a great deal of money to the poor, which was very good of him; he remembered what it had been in olden times to be without a shilling.
Who acts: soldier, deal · What happens: pass, go, drive, give, be, remember · To what, where: theatre, garden, great deal, poor, money
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, deal), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pleasant | advmod |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 theatre | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 theatre | det |
| 13 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 garden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 deal | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deal | amod |
| 26 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 money | case |
| 28 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deal | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 poor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 poor | det |
| 31 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gave | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 good | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 good | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 good | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 good | advmod |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 poor | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 good | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 remembered | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 remembered | nsubj |
| 41 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 remembered | obj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 times | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 times | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 48 times | cop |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 times | case |
| 47 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 times | amod |
| 48 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 what | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 shilling | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 shilling | cop |
| 51 | without | without | ADP | _ | 53 shilling | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 shilling | det |
| 53 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 times | acl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | soldier | time | however property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | soldier not said here | the theatre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | soldier not said here | the king's garden | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | soldier not said here | a great deal of money | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent deal=Theme to poor=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | past | of soldier; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | remember | past | soldier | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past · perfect | deal | in olden times | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | without a shilling | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | deal | money | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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