Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 41

He was very fond of Peter, and would sometimes take him to his home; and he gave him a violin, and taught him to play it.

Who acts: Drum · What happens: be, take, give, teach, play · To what, where: Drum, home, violin, boy

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 (Drum), 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	4 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Peter	case
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fond	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 take	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 take	advmod
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 home	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 home	nmod:poss
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 violin	det
22	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 taught	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taught	cc
25	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gave	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 taught	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 play	mark
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 taught	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 play	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Drum				of Peter; fond property	tree rules
2	take	would		Drum		Drum's home	sometimes property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to home=Destination
3	give	past	Drum	a violin	boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient violin=Theme
4	teach speech: other	past	Drum not said here		Drum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	play	to-infinitive	Drum not said here	violin				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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