Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 70

He accompanied her into the hall, and the little pages offered them gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats, but the old king was so unhappy he could eat nothing, and besides, gingerbread nuts were too hard for him.

Who acts: John, little pages, old king, besides · What happens: accompany, offer, be, eat · To what, where: princess, hall, gingerbread nuts, people, nothing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, little pages, old king, besides), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accompanied	nsubj
2	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 accompanied	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accompanied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 offered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 offered	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pages	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pages	amod
11	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offered	nsubj
12	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accompanied	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offered	iobj
14	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nuts	compound
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 offered	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sweetmeats	cc
17	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nuts	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 unhappy	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 unhappy	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 king	amod
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 unhappy	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 unhappy	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 unhappy	advmod
25	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 offered	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	aux
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 unhappy	ccomp
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 eat	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hard	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hard	cc
32	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hard	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 nuts	punct
34	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nuts	compound
35	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 besides	conj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hard	cop
37	too	too	ADV	_	38 hard	advmod
38	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 accompanied	parataxis
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hard	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accompanied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	accompany	past	John	princess		the hall		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination
2	offer	past	the little pages	gingerbread nuts and sweetmeats	people			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal nut=Theme
3	is	past	the old king				unhappy property	tree rules
4	eat	could	John	nothing				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	is	past	besides and gingerbread nuts				for John; hard 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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