Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 47

Musty eggs and roasted cocks'-combs were the best dishes on the table; even the wine had a strange taste, it was certainly a mixture.

Who acts: Musty eggs, combs, wine · What happens: roast, be, have · To what, where: best dishes, table, strange taste, mixture

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musty eggs, combs, wine), 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	Musty	musty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eggs	amod
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roasted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 eggs	cc
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dishes	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 cocks	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 combs	punct
8	combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dishes	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dishes	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dishes	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 dishes	amod
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roasted	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dishes	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 wine	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wine	det
19	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roasted	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 taste	det
22	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 taste	amod
23	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mixture	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mixture	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mixture	cop
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 mixture	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 mixture	det
29	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 roasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roast	past	Musty eggs				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	combs	cocks's best dishes	the table		tree rules
3	have	past	the wine	a strange taste			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
4	is a	past	wine	a mixture		certainly property	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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