Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 195
"And now the sponsors' gifts were presented, and presents were thrown them.
Who acts: sponsors · What happens: present, throw, gift · To what, where: gifts, presents
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sponsors), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 presented | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 presented | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 presented | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sponsors | det |
| 5 | sponsors | sponsor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 sponsors | case |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 presented | aux:pass |
| 9 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | cc |
| 12 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux:pass |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 presented | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present in a quote | past · passive | the sponsors's gifts | now | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw in a quote | past · passive | presents | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gift in a quote | the sponsors | nom gift «possession transitive»: 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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