Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 69

The fountains spouted forth the most delicious wine, and whoever bought a penny loaf at the baker's received six large buns, full of raisins, as a present.

Who acts: fountains, whoever · What happens: spout, buy, receive · To what, where: delicious wine, penny loaf, received six large buns

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 (fountains, whoever), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fountains	det
2	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spouted	nsubj
3	spouted	spout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 spouted	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wine	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 delicious	advmod
7	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wine	amod
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spouted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bought	cc
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bought	nsubj
12	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spouted	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 loaf	det
14	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loaf	compound
15	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bought	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	23 buns	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 baker	det
18	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 buns	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 baker	case
20	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 buns	amod
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 buns	nummod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 buns	amod
23	buns	bun	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 full	punct
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 buns	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 raisins	case
27	raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 present	punct
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 present	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 present	det
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bought	dislocated
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spout	past	the fountains	the delicious wine		forth property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wine=Source
2	buy	past	whoever	a penny loaf	the baker's received six large buns	a present dislocated	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme at bun=Asset
3	receive	participle					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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