Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 105
But at parting the little girl took an elder-blossom from her breast and gave it to him as a keepsake.
What happens: part, take, give · To what, where: little girl, elder blossom, breast, boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 3 parting | mark |
| 3 | parting | part | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 girl | amod |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 parting | obj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 blossom | det |
| 9 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blossom | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 elder | punct |
| 11 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 breast | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 breast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 keepsake | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 keepsake | det |
| 22 | keepsake | keepsake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | gerund | the little girl | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | past | a elder blossom | girl's breast | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme from breast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | breast | boy | as a keepsake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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