Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 17

Then the boy recovered, his cheeks again grew rosy, he jumped down from the lap where he was sitting, and danced round the kind old poet.

Who acts: boy, cheeks · What happens: recover, grow, jump down, sit, dance · To what, where: lap, kind old poet

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 (boy, cheeks), 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	4 recovered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	nsubj
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grew	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cheeks	nmod:poss
7	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grew	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	9 grew	advmod
9	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	conj
10	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jumped	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jumped	nsubj
13	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 jumped	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 lap	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lap	det
17	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumped	obl
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 sitting	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sitting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sitting	aux
21	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 lap	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 danced	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 danced	cc
24	danced	dance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 jumped	conj
25	round	round	ADP	_	29 poet	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 poet	det
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 poet	amod
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 poet	amod
29	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 danced	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past	the boy		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	boy's cheeks		again	rosy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump down	past	boy	the lap		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from lap=Trajectory
4	sit	past · progressive	boy				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dance	participle	boy not said here	the kind old poet			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round poet=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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