Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 76
Close by stood a boy who dashed his stick into a wet ditch.
Who acts: boy · What happens: stand, dash · To what, where: boy, stick, wet ditch
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 (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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 dashed | nsubj |
| 7 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stick | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 ditch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ditch | det |
| 12 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ditch | amod |
| 13 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a boy | close property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | a boy | boy's stick | into a wet ditch result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent stick=Patient into ditch=Result |
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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