Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 85
The mayor's cook had given her some roasted potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman.
Who acts: some · What happens: give, roast · To what, where: cook, potatoes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cook | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 mayor | case |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | obj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 roasted | nsubj |
| 9 | roasted | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | conj |
| 10 | potatoes | potato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 roasted | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 piece | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piece | amod |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 potatoes | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fat | case |
| 16 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 19 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the mayor's cook | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roast | past | some | potatoes and a beautiful piece of fat for the sick woman | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent potato=Patient |
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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