Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 12

The little boy heard his parents say, “The old man opposite is very well off, but he is so very, very lonely!”

Who acts: little boy, parents, old man opposite, boy · What happens: hear, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. 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, parents, old man opposite, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 off	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 off	punct
10	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 opposite	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 opposite	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opposite	compound
13	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 off	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 off	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	17 off	advmod
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 off	advmod
17	off	off	ADV	_	4 heard	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lonely	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lonely	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lonely	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 lonely	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 lonely	advmod
23	very	very	ADV	_	26 lonely	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lonely	punct
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 lonely	advmod
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	parataxis
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 lonely	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the little boy		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	boy's parents		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the old man opposite	off, well property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	boy	lonely property	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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