Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 70

The new wife was a stranger to him, but she shook hands with him, and offered him coffee.

Who acts: new wife, wife · What happens: be, shake, offer · To what, where: stranger, nearer, hands, coffee

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 (new wife, wife), 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	3 wife	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stranger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stranger	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stranger	det
6	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stranger	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shook	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 shook	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shook	nsubj
12	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stranger	conj
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shook	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shook	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
18	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shook	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 offered	iobj
20	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offered	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stranger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the new wife	a stranger	nearer = near		tree rules
2	shake	past	wife	hands		with nearer = near	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with he=Co-Patient
3	offer	past	wife not said here	coffee	nearer = near		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal coffee=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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