Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 13

The Sunday following, the little boy took something, and wrapped it up in a piece of paper, went downstairs, and stood in the doorway; and when the man who went on errands came past, he said to him--

Who acts: Sunday, little boy, man, boy · What happens: follow, take, wrap up, go, stand, come · To what, where: something, opposite, piece, doorway, errands, man · 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 (Sunday, little boy, man, 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	2 Sunday	det
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl:unmarked
3	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Sunday	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrapped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrapped	cc
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wrapped	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 wrapped	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 piece	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wrapped	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 paper	case
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wrapped	parataxis
22	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stood	cc
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 doorway	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 doorway	det
28	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 came	cc
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 came	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 man	acl:relcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 errands	case
37	errands	errand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 went	obl
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
39	past	past	ADV	_	38 came	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	obl
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund	the Sunday not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	the little boy	something			sunday		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
3	wrap up	past	the little boy not said here	opposite		a piece of paper			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in piece=Destination
4	go	past						downstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	past				the doorway			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
6	go	past	the man			errands			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location
7	come	past	the man					past property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	boy		man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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