Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 141
Their father had given them each a bow and arrow, and they had brought them to show Ida.
Who acts: father · What happens: give, bring, show · To what, where: cousins, Ida
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bow | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bow | det |
| 8 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arrow | cc |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | advcl |
| 19 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect | cousins's father | cousins = cousin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | cousins = cousin | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Ida | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ida=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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