Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 23

The next Sunday morning the little boy wrapped something in a piece of paper and took it to the door of the old house, and said to the attendant who waited upon the old man, "Will you please give this from me to the gentleman who lives here; I have two tin soldiers, and this is one of them, and he shall have it, because I know he is terribly lonely."

Who acts: little boy, attendant, gentleman, I, this, boy · What happens: wrap, take, say, wait, give, live · To what, where: something, piece, paper, door, attendant, this · 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, attendant, gentleman, I), 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	4 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
3	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrapped	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrapped	nsubj
8	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 wrapped	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 piece	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrapped	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 paper	case
14	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrapped	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 door	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 house	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 door	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wrapped	parataxis
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 attendant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 attendant	det
30	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 waited	nsubj
32	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 attendant	acl:relcl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 waited	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 give	punct
39	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 give	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 give	nsubj
41	please	please	INTJ	_	42 give	discourse
42	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 give	obj
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 give	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 gentleman	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gentleman	det
48	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 give	obl
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 lives	nsubj
50	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 gentleman	acl:relcl
51	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 lives	advmod
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 have	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 have	nsubj
54	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrapped	parataxis
55	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 soldiers	nummod
56	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 soldiers	compound
57	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 have	obj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 one	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 one	cc
60	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	62 one	nsubj
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 one	cop
62	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 have	parataxis
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 them	case
64	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 one	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 have	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 have	cc
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 have	nsubj
68	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 have	aux
69	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 have	parataxis
70	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 have	obj
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 know	punct
72	because	because	SCONJ	_	74 know	mark
73	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	74 know	nsubj
74	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	69 have	parataxis
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 lonely	nsubj
76	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	78 lonely	cop
77	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	78 lonely	advmod
78	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 know	ccomp
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wrapped	punct
80	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wrapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	the little boy	something		a piece of paper	morning		tree rules
2	take	past	the little boy not said here	paper		the door of the old house			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to door=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past			the attendant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient clause=Topic
4	wait	past	the attendant					upon the old man	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Location
5	give in a quote	future	the attendant = attendant	this	the gentleman			from me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Theme to gentleman=Recipient
6	live in a quote	present	the gentleman			here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have in a quote	present	I	two tin soldiers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
8	is a in a quote	present	this	one				of soldiers = soldier	tree rules
9	have in a quote	shall	boy	paper					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
10	know in a quote	present	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is in a quote	present	boy					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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