Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 68
Each one carried a burning taper in his hand, and one was given to me, as well as to little Anastasia.
Who acts: one · What happens: carry, burn, give · To what, where: burning taper, hand, one, me
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 (one), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 taper | det |
| 5 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 taper | amod |
| 6 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 given | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Anastasia | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 Anastasia | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Anastasia | amod |
| 23 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | each one | a burning taper | Christ's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent taper=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | one | me | little Anastasia obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to i=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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