Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 68

In former times I had the finest fish, and now I have fresh rosy-cheeked boys at the bottom of the bottle, who learn wisdom, Hebrew, Greek--Croak!”

Who acts: I, fresh cheeked boys · What happens: have, cheek, learn · To what, where: finest fish, fresh cheeked boys, bottom, wisdom

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fresh cheeked boys), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boys	amod
15	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cheeked	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 rosy	punct
17	cheeked	cheek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 boys	amod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boys	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bottle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottle	det
24	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottom	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learn	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 learn	nsubj
27	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 boys	acl:relcl
28	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 learn	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Hebrew	punct
30	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 learn	vocative
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Greek	punct
32	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Hebrew	conj
33	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 Croak	punct
34	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Hebrew	appos
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 Hebrew	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	the finest fish		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	have	present	I	fresh cheeked boys	the bottom of the bottle	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	cheek	participle						tree rules
4	learn	present	fresh cheeked boys	wisdom			Hebrew and Greek vocative	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic

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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