Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 28
The full cask of mead soon became empty, and a fresh one was brought in; for these were people who liked plenty to eat and drink.
Who acts: full cask, people · What happens: become, bring in, be, like, eat, drink · To what, where: fresh one, plenty
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 (full cask, people), 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 | 3 cask | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cask | amod |
| 3 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mead | case |
| 5 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cask | nmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 became | advmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 became | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 brought | compound:prt |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 people | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 people | det |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | cop |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 became | xcomp |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 liked | nsubj |
| 23 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 liked | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 plenty | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drink | cc |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 eat | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the full cask of mead | empty, soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring in | past · passive | a fresh one | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the full cask of mead not said here | for this people | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like | past | this people | plenty | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plenty=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | this people not said here | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | drink | infinitive | this people not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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