Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 40

A rustling was heard in the bushes, and a little boy stood before the King's Son, a boy in wooden shoes, and with so short a jacket that one could see what long wrists he had.

Who acts: little boy, one, long wrists · What happens: hear, stand, see, have · To what, where: rustling, bushes, jacket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, one, long wrists), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rustling	det
2	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	aux:pass
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 bushes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bushes	det
7	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	18 Son	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Son	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 King	case
18	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Son	appos
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 shoes	case
23	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shoes	amod
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 boy	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 short	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 short	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 short	case
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 short	advmod
29	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 jacket	det
31	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 short	nsubj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 see	obj
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 jacket	acl:relcl
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 had	obj
37	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 wrists	amod
38	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 had	nsubj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 see	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · passive		a rustling	the bushes			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	stand	past	a little boy			before the King's Son	with short	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before son=Location
3	see	could	one	a jacket				tree rules
4	have	past	long wrists					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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