Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 59
They gave me onions and musty wine from a tarred cask; but we were not accustomed to much better fare at home.
Who acts: coins · What happens: give, tar, not accustom · To what, where: onions, me, we
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coins), 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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | onions | onion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wine | cc |
| 6 | musty | musty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wine | amod |
| 7 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 onions | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cask | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cask | det |
| 10 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cask | amod |
| 11 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wine | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 accustomed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 accustomed | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 accustomed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 accustomed | advmod |
| 17 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fare | case |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 better | advmod |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 fare | amod |
| 21 | fare | fare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accustomed | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fare | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | coins = coin | onions and musty wine from a tarred cask | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient onion=Theme | |||
| 2 | tar | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not accustom | past · passive | we | to better fare at home | 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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