Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 35

So saying, he gave Joanna the gingerbread man, who was still quite whole--and to Knud the broken maiden; but the children had been so much impressed by the story, that they had not the heart to eat the lovers up.

Who acts: history, gingerbread man, story, children · What happens: say, give, be, break, impress, have · To what, where: gingerbread man, Joanna, children, heart, lovers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (history, gingerbread man, story, children), 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 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gave	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	compound
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whole	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 whole	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whole	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 whole	advmod
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 whole	advmod
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	acl:relcl
16	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 maiden	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 maiden	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Knud	case
19	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 maiden	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 maiden	det
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 maiden	amod
22	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 whole	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 impressed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 impressed	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 children	det
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 impressed	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impressed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 impressed	aux:pass
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 impressed	advmod
31	impressed	impress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gave	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 story	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 impressed	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impressed	advcl
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 heart	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 heart	det
41	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 eat	mark
43	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 heart	acl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 lovers	det
45	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 eat	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	43 eat	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	history not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	history	the gingerbread man	Joanna			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent joanna=Recipient man=Theme
3	is	past	the gingerbread man			still	whole property	tree rules
4	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	impress	past · perfect · passive	the story	the children				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
6	have	past	children = child	the heart				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
7	eat up	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the lovers				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=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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