Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 75

Then the old man came back with a pleasant face; and brought with him beautiful preserved fruits, as well as apples and nuts; and the little boy thought no more of the tin soldier.

Who acts: old man, little boy · What happens: come back, bring, preserve, think · To what, where: beautiful preserved fruits, more

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 (old man, little 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 face	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 face	det
9	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brought	cc
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fruits	amod
17	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fruits	amod
18	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 apples	punct
20	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 apples	cc
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 as	fixed
22	as	as	ADP	_	20 as	fixed
23	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fruits	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 nuts	cc
25	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 apples	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 thought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 thought	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boy	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boy	amod
30	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thought	nsubj
31	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 thought	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 soldier	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 soldier	det
36	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 soldier	compound
37	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 more	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the old man		then	with a pleasant face	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	the old man not said here	beautiful preserved fruits apples and nuts		with man	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
3	preserve	participle					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	the little boy	more			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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