Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 15

He had a nice little bow in his hand, but it was quite spoiled by the rain, and the tints of his many-colored arrows ran one into the other.

Who acts: body, rain, tints · What happens: have, spoil, color, run · To what, where: nice little bow, hand, bow, one, other

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, rain, tints), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bow	det
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bow	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bow	amod
6	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bow	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoiled	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 spoiled	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoiled	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spoiled	aux:pass
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 spoiled	advmod
15	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 rain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rain	det
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoiled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tints	det
22	tints	tint	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ran	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 arrows	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arrows	nmod:poss
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 colored	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 many	punct
27	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 arrows	amod
28	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tints	nmod
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ran	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 other	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 other	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 ran	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	body	a nice little bow	body's hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient
2	spoil	past · passive	the rain	bow		tree rules
3	color	participle				vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	the tints of body's colored arrows	one	the other	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent one=Theme into other=Trajectory

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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