Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 19

So every now and then he had a present of gingerbread, and of course Joanna always had a share.

Who acts: man · What happens: have · To what, where: present, share

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 every	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 every	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 now	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 present	det
9	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gingerbread	case
11	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 present	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Joanna	case
15	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 of	fixed
16	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 had	advmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 share	det
20	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 every	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a present of gingerbread			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient
2	have	past	man not said here	a share				of Joanna; always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient

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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