Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 45

“But there we shall not meet,” said the King's Son, nodding at the same time to the poor boy, who went into the darkest, thickest part of the wood, where thorns tore his humble dress, and scratched his face and hands and feet till they bled.

Who acts: we, poor boy, thorns · What happens: not meet, say, nod, go, tore, scratch · To what, where: poor boy, darkest thickest part, humble dress, face · 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 (we, poor boy, thorns), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 meet	cc
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 meet	expl
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 meet	nsubj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 meet	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 meet	advmod
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 meet	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 meet	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Son	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 King	case
14	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nodding	punct
16	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nodding	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 boy	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nodding	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 boy	acl:relcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	33 part	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 part	det
30	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 part	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 darkest	punct
32	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 part	amod
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 part	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tore	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 tore	advmod
39	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tore	nsubj
40	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wood	acl:relcl
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 dress	nmod:poss
42	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 dress	amod
43	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tore	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 scratched	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 scratched	cc
46	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 face	nmod:poss
48	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 scratched	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hands	cc
50	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 face	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 feet	cc
52	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hands	conj
53	till	till	SCONJ	_	55 bled	mark
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 bled	nsubj
55	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 scratched	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not meet in a quote	shall	we			there		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	nod	gerund			the poor boy		time	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
4	go	past	the poor boy			the darkest thickest part of the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial_Location
5	tore	past	thorns	son's humble dress				tree rules
6	scratch	past		son's face and hands and feet				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
7	bleed	past	thorns = thorn					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/45/