Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 17

They drank deeply, and threw in each other's faces the bones that were left, which was looked upon as a sign of good feeling amongst them.

Who acts: wrongs · What happens: drink, throw, leave, look upon, sign · To what, where: faces, bones, good feeling

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrongs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:6122): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 drank	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 threw	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 faces	nmod:poss
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	's	's	PART	_	8 each	case
11	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bones	det
13	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 threw	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 left	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux:pass
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bones	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 looked	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	aux:pass
20	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 threw	advcl:relcl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 looked	compound:prt
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 sign	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sign	det
24	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looked	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 feeling	case
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feeling	amod
27	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sign	nmod
28	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feeling	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink	past	wrongs = wrong		deeply property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	wrongs = wrong not said here	each's faces		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	leave	past · passive		the bones		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	look upon	past · passive			as a sign of good feeling amongst wrongs	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
5	sign			good feeling amongst wrongs		nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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