Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 55

They soon gathered some, cracked them, and ate the fine young kernels, which were only just ripe.

Who acts: quantities, fine young kernels · What happens: gather, crack, eat, be · To what, where: some, quantities, fine young kernels

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quantities, fine young kernels), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 gathered	advmod
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 gathered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cracked	punct
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cracked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kernels	det
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kernels	amod
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kernels	amod
14	kernels	kernel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ate	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ripe	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 ripe	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ripe	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 ripe	advmod
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 ripe	advmod
20	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 kernels	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	quantities = quantity	some	soon property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	crack	past	quantities = quantity not said here	quantities = quantity		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	eat	past	quantities = quantity not said here	the fine young kernels		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Patient
4	is	past	the fine young kernels		ripe 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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