Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 37

It is quite impossible for them to know him, and they walk along with him arm in arm, as if he, too, were a student like themselves; and then, unperceived, he thrusts an arrow to their bosom.

Who acts: students, child · What happens: be, know, walk, unperceiv, thrust, bosom · To what, where: child, arm, student, arrow, bosom

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 (students, child), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 impossible	advmod
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	csubj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 know	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walk	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	nsubj
13	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
14	along	along	ADV	_	13 walk	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walk	obl
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 arm	case
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 arm	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 student	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 student	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 student	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 student	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 he	punct
25	too	too	ADV	_	29 student	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 too	punct
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 student	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 student	det
29	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 student	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 unperceived	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 unperceived	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 unperceived	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 unperceived	punct
36	unperceived	unperceiv	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 impossible	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thrusts	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thrusts	nsubj
39	thrusts	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 unperceived	conj
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 arrow	det
41	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thrusts	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 bosom	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 bosom	nmod:poss
44	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thrusts	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					impossible property	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive	students = student	child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	walk	present	students = student	arm in arm			with child; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	child	a student			like students = student	tree rules
5	unperceiv	participle				then		tree rules
6	thrust	present	child	a arrow	students's bosom			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to bosom=Destination
7	bosom		students = student					nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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