Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 15

Each boy now took his gun, and the bear was obliged to have one too, and he held it up quite properly.

Who acts: boy · What happens: take, oblige, have, hold up · To what, where: gun, bear, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gun	nmod:poss
6	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obliged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 obliged	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 obliged	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 obliged	aux:pass
12	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 obliged	xcomp
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 have	obj
16	too	too	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 held	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 held	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 held	compound:prt
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 properly	advmod
24	properly	properly	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	each boy	boy's gun	now		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
2	oblige	past · passive		the bear			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	have	to-infinitive		one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	hold up	past	boy	bear		properly property	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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: «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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