Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 75

That was a good roll, and proved the summons to victory for the men, who had already begun to give way.

Who acts: That, good roll, men · What happens: be, prove, begin, give · To what, where: good roll, summons, way

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 (That, good roll, men), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 roll	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 roll	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 roll	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roll	amod
5	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proved	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 proved	cc
8	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 roll	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summons	det
10	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 proved	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 victory	case
12	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proved	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 men	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 proved	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begun	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 begun	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 begun	aux
19	already	already	ADV	_	20 begun	advmod
20	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 men	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 begun	xcomp
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a good roll		tree rules
2	prove	past	a good roll not said here	the summons	to victory; for the men	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme
3	begin	past · perfect	the men			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	give	to-infinitive	the men not said here	way		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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