Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 19

But the youngest boy nodded to her in great glee, and called out in his infantile prattle, 'We're playing at soldiers.'

Who acts: youngest boy, We, boy · What happens: nod, call out, play, prattle · To what, where: mother, great glee, infantile prattle, soldiers

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 (youngest boy, We, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 nodded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nodded	nsubj
5	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 nodded	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 glee	case
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glee	amod
10	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nodded	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 called	cc
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 glee	acl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 called	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 prattle	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 prattle	nmod:poss
17	infantile	infantile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prattle	amod
18	prattle	prattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 playing	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	23 playing	punct
21	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 playing	nsubj
22	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 playing	aux
23	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 nodded	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 soldiers	case
25	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 playing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 nodded	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	nod	past	the youngest boy		mother	great glee	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	call out speech: assert	participle		great glee not said here		boy's infantile prattle	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	present · progressive	We			soldiers	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	prattle		boy				nom prattle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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