Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 9

“Poor child!” said the old poet, as he took the boy by the hand.

Who acts: Poor child, child · What happens: say, take · To what, where: old poet, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Poor child, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	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 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 took	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boy	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Poor child	the old poet					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent poet=Topic
2	take	past	child		the boy			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination

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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