Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 157
Babette clinked glasses with Rudy, and he returned thanks for the toast.
Who acts: Babette, glass · What happens: clink, return · To what, where: glasses, thanks
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 (Babette, glass), 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clinked | nsubj |
| 2 | clinked | clink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 clinked | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Rudy | case |
| 5 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 glasses | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 returned | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clinked | conj |
| 10 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 toast | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 toast | det |
| 13 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thanks | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clinked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clink | past | Babette | glasses | with Rudy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | glass | thanks | for the toast | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=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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