Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 43

Oh, he is a naughty boy, that Cupid; you must never have anything to do with him.

Who acts: child, you · What happens: be, not have, do · To what, where: naughty boy, anything

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, you), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Cupid	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Cupid	mark
10	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 boy	acl:relcl
16	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 have	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 anything	acl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	child	a naughty boy	Cupid nmod	tree rules
2	not have	must	you	anything		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything not said here	with child	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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