Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 9

But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pieces of wood look really like two little wooden shoes, and he determined to give them as a present to Little Christina.

Who acts: one day, Ib, two pieces · What happens: succeed, make, look, determine, give · To what, where: shoes

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 (one day, Ib, two pieces), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 succeeded	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 succeeded	nsubj
4	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
5	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 succeeded	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 carving	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 carving	nmod:poss
10	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 succeeded	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 succeeded	advcl
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pieces	nummod
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wood	case
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pieces	nmod
18	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	ccomp
19	really	really	ADV	_	24 shoes	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	24 shoes	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shoes	nummod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
23	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 look	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 determined	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 determined	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 determined	nsubj
28	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 succeeded	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 determined	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 present	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 present	det
34	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 Christina	case
36	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 Christina	amod
37	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 present	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 succeeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	succeed	past	one day		in Ib's carving; well property	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in carving=Eventuality
2	make	past	Ib			tree rules
3	look	present	two pieces of wood		like two little wooden shoes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	determine	past	Ib			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	to-infinitive	Ib not said here	shoes = shoe	as a present to Little Christina	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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