Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 46

The King's Son got some scratches too; but the sun shone on his path, and it is him that we will follow, for he was an excellent and resolute youth.

Who acts: King, sun · What happens: get, shine, be, follow · To what, where: scratches, sun, path, king

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 (King, sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 scratches	det
7	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 follow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	nsubj
13	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sun	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 path	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 path	nmod:poss
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shone	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 follow	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 him	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 him	cop
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	reparandum
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 follow	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 follow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 follow	aux
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 youth	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	34 youth	case
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 youth	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 youth	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 youth	det
31	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 youth	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 resolute	cc
33	resolute	resolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 excellent	conj
34	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the King	some scratches			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scratch=Stimulus
2	shine	participle		the sun not said here	king's path		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location
3	is a	present	sun	king			tree rules
4	follow	future	the sun				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	king			for a excellent youth	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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