Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 27

And they remained as they were; for the hammer really broke off his engagement with the younger one, for nothing would suit him but he must have a maiden for his bride.

Who acts: chips, nothing, name · What happens: remain, be, break off, suit, have, engage · To what, where: engagement, name, maiden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chips, nothing, name), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 remained	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 were	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 broke	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hammer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hammer	det
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obl
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 broke	advmod
12	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 broke	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 engagement	nmod:poss
15	engagement	engagement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 one	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
18	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broke	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 suit	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 suit	mark
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 suit	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 suit	aux
24	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 broke	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 suit	obj
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 have	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 suit	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 maiden	det
31	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 bride	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bride	nmod:poss
34	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maiden	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	chips = chip			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	chips = chip			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break off	past	chips = chip not said here	name's engagement	for the hammer; with the younger one	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient with one=Instrument
4	suit	would	nothing	name		tree rules
5	have	must	name	a maiden	for name's bride	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient
6	engage		name			nom engagement «act intransitive»: poss=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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