Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 38

Yes, then I was a little wild boy, who did not go to school very regularly.

Who acts: I, little wild boy · What happens: be, not go · To what, where: little wild boy, school

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 (I, little wild boy), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 boy	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 boy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 go	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 boy	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 school	case
16	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 regularly	advmod
18	regularly	regularly	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a little wild boy			then		tree rules
2	not go	past · do-support	a little wild boy			school		regularly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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