Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 29

A peasant boy rode on one, and he had taken off all his clothes except his large broad black hat.

Who acts: peasant boy, boy · What happens: ride, take off · To what, where: clothes

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant boy, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 one	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 rode	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taken	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taken	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 rode	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	15 clothes	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 clothes	det:predet
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 clothes	nmod:poss
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	11 taken	obl
16	except	except	ADP	_	21 hat	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hat	nmod:poss
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hat	amod
19	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hat	amod
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hat	amod
21	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	a peasant boy					on one	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	take off	past · perfect	boy	boy's clothes				except boy's large broad black hat	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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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