Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 30
The naughty boy, to shoot the old poet in that way; he who had taken him into his warm room, who had treated him so kindly, and who had given him warm wine and the very best apples!
Who acts: naughty boy, boy · What happens: shoot, take, treat, give · To what, where: old poet, way, moon, warm room, warm wine
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 (naughty boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoot | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoot | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 shoot | mark |
| 6 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 poet | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 poet | amod |
| 9 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoot | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shoot | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 taken | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 shoot | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taken | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 treated | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 treated | aux |
| 26 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 room | acl:relcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 treated | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 kindly | advmod |
| 29 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 26 treated | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 given | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 taken | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 given | iobj |
| 36 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wine | amod |
| 37 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 apples | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 apples | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 best | advmod |
| 41 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 apples | amod |
| 42 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 wine | conj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | to-infinitive | the naughty boy | the old poet | that way | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent poet=Theme in way=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | boy | moon | moon's warm room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 3 | treat | past · perfect · passive | moon's warm room | kindly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect | warm wine and the best apples | moon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wine=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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