Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 63
Then in came the old man with the most pleased and happy face, the most delicious preserves, apples, and nuts, and so the little boy thought no more about the pewter soldier.
Who acts: old man, little boy · What happens: come, think · To what, where: nuts, more
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 (old man, little 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 came | case |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pleased | conj |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 preserves | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 preserves | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 delicious | advmod |
| 17 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 preserves | amod |
| 18 | preserves | preserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 man | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 apples | punct |
| 20 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 preserves | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nuts | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 nuts | cc |
| 23 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thought | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 thought | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boy | amod |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 31 | no | no | ADV | _ | 32 more | advmod |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 thought | obj |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 36 soldier | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 soldier | det |
| 35 | pewter | pewter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 soldier | amod |
| 36 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 more | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old man with the pleased face | nuts | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the little boy | more | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
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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