Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 8

That was the boy's favourite piece of furniture, but he dared not touch it, for if he meddled with it he got a rap on the knuckles.

Who acts: That, pendulum · What happens: be, touch, meddle, get · To what, where: favourite piece, furniture, rap, knuckles

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, pendulum), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 piece	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 piece	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 furniture	case
9	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 touch	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 touch	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touch	nsubj
13	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 touch	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dared	advmod
15	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 piece	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meddled	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 meddled	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 meddled	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 meddled	nsubj
21	meddled	meddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 touch	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 meddled	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 meddled	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 rap	det
27	rap	rap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 got	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 knuckles	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knuckles	det
30	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 got	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 piece	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	the boy's favourite piece		of furniture	tree rules
2	touch	past	pendulum	furniture			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	meddle a condition, not said to happen	past	pendulum			with furniture	tree rules
4	get	past	pendulum	a rap	the knuckles		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rap=Theme on knuckle=Source

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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