Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 2
He had gone out and got his feet wet; though nobody could imagine how it had happened, for it was quite dry weather.
Who acts: boy, nobody, it · What happens: go out, get, imagine, happen, be · To what, where: feet
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, nobody, it), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 gone | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 imagine | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 imagine | mark |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 imagine | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 imagine | aux |
| 14 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gone | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 happened | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 imagine | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 weather | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 weather | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 weather | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 weather | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 dry | advmod |
| 24 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 weather | amod |
| 25 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 happened | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · perfect | boy | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | boy not said here | boy's feet | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | imagine | could | nobody | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | it | for dry weather | 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: «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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