Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 24
She gave it to him out of her own garden--a nobleman's daughter.
Who acts: cloth · What happens: give · To what, where: friendship, many, own garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | obl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nobleman | det |
| 13 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 nobleman | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | cloth | friendship | many | cloth's own garden and a nobleman's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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