Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 91
Cakes and sweetmeats were thrown among the people.
What happens: throw · To what, where: Cakes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sweetmeats | cc |
| 3 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cakes | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thrown | aux:pass |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thrown | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | Cakes and sweetmeats | among the people | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme among people=Destination |
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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