Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 145

So the two men shook hands, which they had never done before.

Who acts: two men, people · What happens: shake, not do · To what, where: hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men, people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shook	nsubj
5	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shook	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 done	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 done	advmod
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hands	acl:relcl
13	before	before	ADV	_	12 done	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the two men	hands					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	not do	past · perfect	people	hands				before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality

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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