Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 22

The little boy one day heard his parents say, "The old man opposite is very well off, but is terribly lonely."

Who acts: little boy, parents, old man opposite · What happens: hear, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, parents, old man opposite), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	obl:unmarked
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 off	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 off	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 opposite	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 opposite	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opposite	compound
15	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 off	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 off	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	19 off	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 off	advmod
19	off	off	ADV	_	9 say	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lonely	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 lonely	cc
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lonely	cop
23	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	24 lonely	advmod
24	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heard	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 lonely	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the little boy		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	boy's parents		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	the old man opposite	off, well property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present		lonely, terribly property	tree rules

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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