Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 60
No refreshments were given, only there was plenty to drink, for the whole pond was free.
Who acts: plenty, whole pond · What happens: give, be, drink · To what, where: refreshments
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 (plenty, whole pond), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 refreshments | det |
| 2 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 was | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | parataxis |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 plenty | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 free | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pond | amod |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 free | cop |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 given | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | no refreshments | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | plenty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the whole pond | free property | tree rules |
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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