Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 44

But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.

Who acts: poor child, son · What happens: confirm, be, look, pull, say, not walk · To what, where: poor child, wooden shoes, bell, place, sorts, beautiful things · 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 (poor child, son), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 ashamed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ashamed	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 confirmed	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 confirmed	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 confirmed	aux:pass
8	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 child	acl:relcl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ashamed	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 ashamed	advmod
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ashamed	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 shoes	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoes	nmod:poss
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 shoes	amod
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 shoes	acl
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 sleeves	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sleeves	det
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sleeves	amod
24	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pulled	obl:agent
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 jacket	case
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	24 sleeves	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looked	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 afraid	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 afraid	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 afraid	cop
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	ccomp
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 walk	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 walk	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 walk	advmod
38	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 afraid	ccomp
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 fast	advmod
40	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 walk	advmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
42	besides	besides	INTJ	_	45 thought	discourse
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looked	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 looked	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 bell	det
48	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 looked	nsubj:pass
49	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 looked	aux
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 looked	aux:pass
51	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 thought	ccomp
52	for	for	ADP	_	55 right	case
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 right	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 right	det
55	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 looked	obl
56	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 place	punct
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 that	case
58	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	61 place	obl
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 place	cop
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 place	det
61	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ashamed	obl
62	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	71 found	advmod
63	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 sorts	det
64	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 found	nsubj:pass
65	of	of	ADP	_	67 things	case
66	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 things	amod
67	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 sorts	nmod
68	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 found	aux:pass
69	to	to	PART	_	71 found	mark
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	71 found	aux:pass
71	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 place	acl:relcl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ashamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confirm	past · perfect · passive		the poor child		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	past	the poor child		ashamed property	tree rules
3	look	past	son		at son's wooden shoes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme
4	pull	participle		son's wooden shoes not said here		vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	son not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	son		afraid property	tree rules
7	not walk	could	son		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	think speech: other	past	son			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	look	must · passive		the bell	for the right	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
10	is a	past		the place	for that	tree rules
11	find	past · passive	the poor child not said here	all sorts of beautiful things		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
12	sort			beautiful things		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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