Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 41
Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.
Who acts: boy · What happens: know, not be, have, go, return · To what, where: each, jacket, son
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 (boy), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 knew | advmod |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 knew | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | cop |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 come | nsubj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 children | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | conj |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 return | cc |
| 25 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 go | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 27 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 return | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 boots | cc |
| 29 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 jacket | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 son | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 innkeeper | det |
| 32 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 son | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 innkeeper | case |
| 34 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 return | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not is | could · past | the boy | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | boy not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | return | infinitive | boy not said here | boy's jacket and boots | the innkeeper's son | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme to son=Destination |
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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