Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 102

He was soon met by two schoolboys of the upper class--that is to say as individuals, for with regard to learning they were in the lowest class in the school; and they bought the stupid bird.

Who acts: two schoolboys, that, individuals · What happens: meet, be, learn, buy · To what, where: tirade, lowest class, stupid bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two schoolboys, that, individuals), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux:pass
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 met	advmod
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 schoolboys	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 schoolboys	nummod
7	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 met	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 class	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 class	det
10	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 class	amod
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 schoolboys	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 met	parataxis
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 individuals	case
18	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 regard	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 regard	case
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 regard	case
22	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 learning	case
24	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 regard	nmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 class	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 class	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 class	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 class	det
29	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 class	amod
30	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 learning	ccomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 school	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 school	det
33	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 class	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 bought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bought	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bought	nsubj
37	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bird	det
39	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bird	amod
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bought	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past · passive	two schoolboys of the upper class	tirade		soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent
2	is	present	that			as individuals; for regard; say property	tree rules
3	learn	gerund					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	individuals = individual		the lowest class	in the school	tree rules
5	buy	past	individuals = individual	the stupid bird			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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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