Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 25
“That were sad indeed,” said the boy, and he took the bow in his hand and examined it on every side.
Who acts: That, boy · What happens: be, say, take, examine · To what, where: bow, hand, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bow | det |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 examined | cc |
| 21 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 examined | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 side | det |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 examined | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | That | indeed, sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past | boy | the bow | boy's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bow=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | examine | past | boy not said here | bow | every side | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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