Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 92

Of these he ate only a few, but he called around him the other birds and the hungry sparrows, that they too might have food.

Who acts: corn, sparrows · What happens: eat, call, have · To what, where: few, other birds, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, sparrows), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 these	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 ate	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 few	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 few	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 called	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	parataxis
12	around	around	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 called	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 birds	amod
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sparrows	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sparrows	det
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sparrows	amod
20	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 birds	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 have	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
24	too	too	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 called	conj
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	corn	a few	of these	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient
2	call	past	corn	the other birds and the hungry sparrows	around heaven	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	might	sparrows = sparrow	food		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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