Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 207

The boys played about in the court, and the youngest wore the gold star on his breast which the Tree had had on the happiest evening of his life.

Who acts: boys, youngest, Tree · What happens: play about, wear, have · To what, where: court, gold star, breast

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, youngest, Tree), 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	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wore	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 wore	nsubj
12	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 star	det
14	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 star	compound
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wore	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 breast	nmod:poss
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wore	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Tree	det
21	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 had	aux
23	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 breast	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 evening	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 evening	det
26	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 evening	amod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 life	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 evening	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play about	past	the boys		the court		about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	past	the youngest	the gold star	boy's breast			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent star=Source
3	have	past · perfect	the Tree	boy's breast		evening		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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