Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 52

Then they gave the whole burdock forest to the young snails as an inheritance, and repeated what they had so often said, that it was the finest place in the world, and that if they led upright and honorable lives, and their family increased, they and their children might some day be taken to the nobleman's palace, to be boiled black, and laid on a silver dish.

Who acts: snails, inheritance, family · What happens: give, repeat, say, be, lead, increase · To what, where: whole burdock forest, young snails, finest place, world, children, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snails, inheritance, family), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forest	amod
6	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forest	compound
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 snails	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snails	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snails	amod
11	snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 inheritance	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 inheritance	det
14	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 repeated	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 repeated	cc
17	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gave	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 repeated	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 said	advmod
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 place	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 place	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 place	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 place	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
29	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 place	amod
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 repeated	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 led	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 led	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 led	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 led	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 led	nsubj
39	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
40	upright	upright	ADV	_	39 led	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lives	cc
42	honorable	honorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lives	amod
43	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 led	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 increased	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 increased	cc
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 family	nmod:poss
47	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 increased	nsubj
48	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 they	punct
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 increased	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 taken	cc
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 children	nmod:poss
53	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 taken	nsubj:pass
54	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 taken	aux
55	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	56 day	det
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 taken	obl:unmarked
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 taken	aux:pass
58	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 they	conj
59	to	to	ADP	_	63 palace	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 nobleman	det
61	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 palace	nmod:poss
62	's	's	PART	_	61 nobleman	case
63	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 taken	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 boiled	punct
65	to	to	PART	_	67 boiled	mark
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 boiled	aux:pass
67	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 increased	parataxis
68	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 boiled	xcomp
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 laid	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 laid	cc
71	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 boiled	conj
72	on	on	ADP	_	75 dish	case
73	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	75 dish	det
74	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 dish	compound
75	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 laid	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	snails = snail	the whole burdock forest	the young snails		then	as a inheritance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent forest=Theme to snail=Recipient
2	repeat	participle	snails = snail not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	snails = snail					often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	inheritance	the finest place		the world			tree rules
5	lead a condition, not said to happen	past	snails = snail					upright property	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
6	increase	past	snails's family						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	take	might · passive		snails's children		the nobleman's palace	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination
8	boil	to-infinitive · passive						black property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»
9	lay	participle				a silver dish			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on dish=Destination

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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