Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 61

Ib looked at her, and as she spoke so kindly, he took courage, and asked her if she would give him the nuts; and the woman gave them to him, and then gathered some more from the bushes for herself, quite a pocket full.

Who acts: Ib, child, woman · What happens: look, speak, take, ask, give, gather · To what, where: courage, child, nuts, Ib, pocket, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ib, child, woman), 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	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spoke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 kindly	advmod
11	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	9 spoke	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
15	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 give	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nuts	det
26	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 woman	det
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 gathered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 gathered	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 gathered	advmod
38	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gave	conj
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 more	det
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 gathered	advmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 bushes	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bushes	det
43	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gathered	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 herself	case
45	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 gathered	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 pocket	punct
47	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	49 pocket	det:predet
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 pocket	det
49	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obl
50	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pocket	amod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Ib					at child	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	child					kindly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	Ib	courage					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Ib not said here		child				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	child	the nuts	Ib				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nut=Theme
6	give	past	the woman	quite pocket	nuts = nut			to Ib	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient
7	gather	past	the woman not said here			the bushes	then	for child	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from bush=Source for herself=Asset

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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