Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 57
She gives a feast on the longest day of the year, that there may be time for her guests to partake of the numerous dishes at her table.
Who acts: lady · What happens: give, be, partake · To what, where: feast, time
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 be | expl |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | cop |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 guests | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 guests | nmod:poss |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 time | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 partake | mark |
| 22 | partake | partake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dishes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dishes | det |
| 25 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dishes | amod |
| 26 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 partake | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 table | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 table | nmod:poss |
| 29 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dishes | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | lady | a feast | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | time | for lady's guests | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | partake | to-infinitive | lady not said here | of the numerous dishes at lady's table | 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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