Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 28

The farmer's wife and the sexton were sitting at the table together; and she filled his glass, and helped him plenteously to fish, which appeared to be his favorite dish. "

Who acts: wife, fish · What happens: sit, fill, help, appear, be · To what, where: table, glass, Claus, favorite dish

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, fish), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sexton	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sexton	det
7	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 table	det
12	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	together	together	ADV	_	9 sitting	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 filled	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 filled	nsubj
17	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 glass	nmod:poss
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 helped	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 helped	cc
22	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 filled	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helped	obj
24	plenteously	plenteously	ADV	_	26 fish	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 fish	case
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helped	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 appeared	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 appeared	nsubj
29	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fish	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	34 dish	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 dish	cop
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 dish	nmod:poss
33	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dish	amod
34	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 appeared	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the farmer's wife and the sexton			the table	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	fill	past	wife	Claus's glass				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
3	help	past	wife not said here		Claus		to fish	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	appear	past	fish					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	to-infinitive	fish not said here	Claus's favorite dish				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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