Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 73

Out of his box, in which were the most beautiful colours, the old man took a quantity of shining leaf-gold, while the boys had to go and fetch some white of egg, with which the sparrow was to be smeared all over; the gold was stuck on to this, and the sparrow-mother was now gilded all over.

Who acts: box, old man, quantity, boys · What happens: be, take, shine, have, go, fetch · To what, where: beautiful colours, quantity, box, leaf gold, white, sparrow

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 (box, old man, quantity, boys), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 box	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 box	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 box	nmod:poss
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 colours	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 colours	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 colours	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colours	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 beautiful	advmod
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 colours	amod
12	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 box	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 box	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 quantity	det
19	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 shining	mark
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 quantity	acl
22	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gold	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 leaf	punct
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shining	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boys	det
28	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fetch	cc
33	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 go	conj
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 white	det
35	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fetch	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 egg	case
37	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 white	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 smeared	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 smeared	obl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sparrow	det
42	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 smeared	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 smeared	aux
44	to	to	PART	_	46 smeared	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 smeared	aux:pass
46	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 fetch	advcl
47	all	all	ADV	_	48 over	advmod
48	over	over	ADV	_	46 smeared	advmod
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 stuck	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 gold	det
51	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 stuck	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 stuck	aux:pass
53	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 took	parataxis
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 this	case
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 this	case
56	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 stuck	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 gilded	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 gilded	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 mother	det
60	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 mother	compound
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	60 sparrow	punct
62	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 gilded	nsubj:pass
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 gilded	aux:pass
64	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 gilded	advmod
65	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 stuck	conj
66	all	all	ADV	_	67 over	advmod
67	over	over	ADV	_	65 gilded	advmod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	word's box and the beautiful colours	the beautiful colours				tree rules
2	take	past	the old man	a quantity	word's box and the beautiful colours			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme out box=Initial_Location
3	shine	gerund	a quantity not said here	leaf gold				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
4	have	past	the boys					tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	the boys not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	infinitive	the boys not said here	some white of egg				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent white=Theme
7	smear	past · passive		the sparrow			over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme
8	stick	past · passive		the gold	this			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on this=Destination
9	gild	past · passive		the sparrow mother		now	over property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=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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