Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 124

He comes to the most genteel houses, even to the burgomaster's where he gives Miss Charlotte piano-forte lessons."

Who acts: hair, Miss · What happens: come, give, lesson · To what, where: genteel houses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, Miss), 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 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 houses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 houses	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 genteel	advmod
6	genteel	genteel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 houses	amod
7	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gives	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	16 gives	advmod
10	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 gives	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 burgomaster	det
12	burgomaster	burgomaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gives	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 burgomaster	case
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 gives	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gives	nsubj
16	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	parataxis
17	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lessons	nsubj
18	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Miss	flat
19	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forte	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 piano	punct
21	forte	forte	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lessons	compound
22	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gives	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	come	present	hair	the genteel houses	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	give	present	hair		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	lesson		Miss		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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