Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 76
His fellow-traveller had thought of that, so he gave John three feathers out of the swan's wings, and a little bottle with a few drops in it.
Who acts: traveller · What happens: think, give · To what, where: fellow traveller, three feathers, John, wings
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 (traveller), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 traveller | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 traveller | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fellow | punct |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | aux |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 gave | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | conj |
| 13 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 feathers | nummod |
| 15 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 wings | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wings | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 swan | det |
| 19 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 swan | case |
| 21 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bottle | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bottle | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bottle | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bottle | amod |
| 26 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 drops | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 drops | det |
| 29 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 drops | amod |
| 30 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bottle | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 drops | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect · passive | John's fellow traveller | of that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | traveller | three feathers | John | the swan's wings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent john=Recipient feather=Theme |
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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