Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 93

He flew into the towns, and looked about, and wherever a kind hand had strewed bread on the window-sill for the birds, he only ate a single crumb himself, and gave all the rest to the rest of the other birds.

Who acts: corn · What happens: fly, look, strew, eat, give · To what, where: towns, kind hand, window sill, single crumb, rest

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 towns	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 towns	det
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flew	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 strewed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 strewed	cc
12	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	17 strewed	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hand	det
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hand	amod
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strewed	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 strewed	aux
17	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strewed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 sill	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sill	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sill	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 window	punct
23	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strewed	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 birds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 birds	det
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 strewed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ate	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ate	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 ate	advmod
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 crumb	det
32	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 crumb	amod
33	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ate	obj
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 ate	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gave	cc
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 rest	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rest	det
40	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 rest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 rest	det
43	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 birds	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 birds	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 birds	amod
47	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 rest	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	corn				into the towns result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=Result
2	look	past	corn not said here				about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	strew	past · perfect · passive		a kind hand		the window sill	for the birds; wherever property	tree rules
4	eat	past	corn	a single crumb			corn obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
5	give	past	corn not said here	all rest	the rest of the other birds			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to rest=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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