Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 29
It pleased them also to strew bread-crumbs for us, and so we have food, and may consider ourselves provided for.
Who acts: we · What happens: please, strew, have, consider, provide · To what, where: course, bread crumbs, food, ourselves
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14878): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pleased | expl |
| 2 | pleased | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pleased | obj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 strew | mark |
| 6 | strew | strew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pleased | csubj |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crumbs | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bread | punct |
| 9 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strew | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 us | case |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 strew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 have | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | conj |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 consider | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 consider | cc |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 consider | aux |
| 21 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | conj |
| 22 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 consider | obj |
| 23 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 consider | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 provided | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | past | course | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | strew | to-infinitive | bread crumbs | for us | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | we | food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | consider | may | we not said here | ourselves | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ourselves=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | provide | participle | we not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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