Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 13

He sniffed at them proudly, but would not eat one, so she ate them herself.

Who acts: mistress, lady · What happens: sniff, not eat, eat · To what, where: one, pieces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, lady), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	nsubj
2	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sniffed	obl
5	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	2 sniffed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 eat	advmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sniffed	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 eat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 ate	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eat	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ate	obj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 ate	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sniffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	mistress		at pieces = piece; proudly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	not eat	would		one		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	eat	past	lady	pieces = piece		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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