Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 107

Then they made speeches and drank toasts, and tipped their glasses, to show that they were empty.

Who acts: youngsters · What happens: make, drink, tip, show, be · To what, where: speeches, toasts, glasses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngsters), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	speeches	speech	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
7	toasts	toast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tipped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tipped	cc
10	tipped	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 glasses	nmod:poss
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tipped	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 show	mark
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tipped	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 empty	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 empty	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 empty	cop
19	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 show	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	youngsters = youngster	speeches	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
2	drink	past	youngsters = youngster not said here	toasts			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Patient
3	tip	past	youngsters = youngster not said here	youngsters's glasses			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
4	show	to-infinitive	youngsters = youngster not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	youngsters = youngster			empty property	tree rules

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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