Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 30

The boy whistled like a bird, and rode into the pond where it was deepest, and as he passed the rose-bush he plucked a rose and stuck it in his hat.

Who acts: boy, pond · What happens: whistle, ride, be, pass, pluck, stick · To what, where: pond, rose bush, rose, bush, hat

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 (boy, pond), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whistled	nsubj
3	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whistled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rode	cc
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whistled	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 pond	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pond	det
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deepest	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 deepest	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 deepest	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 deepest	cop
16	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 rode	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 passed	nsubj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whistled	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bush	det
23	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bush	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
25	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 passed	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 plucked	nsubj
27	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bush	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 rose	det
29	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plucked	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stuck	cc
31	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stuck	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 hat	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hat	nmod:poss
35	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stuck	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	the boy			like a bird	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ride	past	the boy not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	pond		the pond	deep property	tree rules
4	pass	past	boy	the rose bush			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bush=Trajectory
5	pluck	past	boy	a rose			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient
6	stick	past	boy not said here	bush	boy's hat		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hat=Destination

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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