Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 68
Three oxen, stuffed with ducks and chickens, were roasted whole in the market-place, where every one might help himself to a slice.
Who acts: one · What happens: stuff, roast, help · To what, where: Three oxen, joy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 oxen | nummod |
| 2 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 roasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuffed | punct |
| 4 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 oxen | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 ducks | case |
| 6 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stuffed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chickens | cc |
| 8 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ducks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 oxen | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 roasted | aux:pass |
| 11 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 roasted | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 15 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 market | punct |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roasted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 help | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 roasted | parataxis |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 slice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 slice | det |
| 27 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 help | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 roasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stuff | participle | Three oxen not said here | with ducks and chickens | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with duck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roast | past · passive | Three oxen | in the market place; whole property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in place=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | help | might | every one | joy | to a slice | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
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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