Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 143
They boast of their gifts of eloquence and their language!
Who acts: men · What happens: boast, gift · To what, where: eloquence
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | 2 boast | nsubj |
| 2 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gifts | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 boast | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eloquence | case |
| 7 | eloquence | eloquence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gifts | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 language | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 language | nmod:poss |
| 10 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eloquence | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | men = man | of men's gifts of eloquence and men's language | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gift | men = man | eloquence and men's language | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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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