Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 35
And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.
Who acts: child, good children · What happens: relate, take, make, be, heed · To what, where: story, great heed, fools, naughty Cupid
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 (child, good children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 whom | case |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 children | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 related | nsubj |
| 8 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 whom | acl:relcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 related | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 children | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heed | amod |
| 14 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Cupid | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Cupid | nsubj |
| 17 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Cupid | amod |
| 18 | Cupid | Cupid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 heed | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 23 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fools | nmod |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 made | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cunning | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 cunning | case |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cunning | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 cunning | cop |
| 31 | astonishingly | astonishingly | ADV | _ | 32 cunning | advmod |
| 32 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | child | this story | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | good children | great heed of naughty Cupid | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | child | fools of fools | still | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Product | |||
| 4 | is | present | child | for cunning; astonishingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | heed | naughty Cupid | nom heed «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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