Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 60
They took off their boots, that they might be more at ease, and gave them to the ladies to hold.
Who acts: folks · What happens: take off, be, give, hold · To what, where: boots, ease, folks
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 (folks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boots | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 more | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 more | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 more | cop |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 took | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 ease | case |
| 13 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 more | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ladies | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ladies | det |
| 20 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hold | mark |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 gave | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | folks = folk | folks's boots | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | might | folks = folk | ease | more property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | past | folks = folk not said here | folks = folk | to the ladies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to lady=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | folks = folk not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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