Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 8

There stood a little boy, quite naked, and the water ran down from his long golden hair; he trembled with cold, and had he not come into a warm room he would most certainly have perished in the frightful tempest.

Who acts: water · What happens: stand, run down, tremble, have, not come, perish · To what, where: little boy, long golden hair, warm room, frightful tempest

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 (water), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 naked	punct
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 naked	advmod
8	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	19 hair	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hair	nmod:poss
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hair	amod
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 trembled	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 trembled	nsubj
22	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 cold	case
24	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 trembled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 room	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 room	det
33	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 perished	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 perished	aux
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 certainly	advmod
38	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	40 perished	advmod
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 perished	aux
40	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 room	acl:relcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 tempest	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tempest	det
43	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 tempest	amod
44	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 perished	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a little boy	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	run down	past	the water		water's long golden hair	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory
3	tremble	past	water			with cold	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past					tree rules
5	not come	infinitive	water		a warm room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
6	perish	would · perfect	water	a warm room not said here	the frightful tempest	certainly property	tree rules

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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