Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 12

The younger of these men had brought with him from home his best, his dearest treasure--a Bible, which his grandmother had given him on his departure.

Who acts: eye · What happens: bring, give, treasure, depart · To what, where: younger men, grandmother, eye, departure

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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	5 men	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 men	amod
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 men	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 men	det
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brought	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brought	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 best	obl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 best	nmod:poss
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 brought	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 treasure	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 treasure	nmod:poss
16	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 treasure	amod
17	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 best	obl
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 Bible	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Bible	det
20	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 treasure	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 given	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grandmother	nmod:poss
24	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Bible	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	iobj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 departure	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 departure	nmod:poss
30	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect · passive		the younger men			with eye	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	give	past · perfect · passive		eye's grandmother	eye	eye's departure		tree rules
3	treasure		eye					nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent
4	depart		eye					nom departure «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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