Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 76

How happy and delighted the little boy was; and after he returned home, and while days and weeks passed, a great deal of nodding took place from one house to the other, and then the little boy went to pay another visit.

Who acts: little boy, boy, days, great deal · What happens: be, return, pass, take, go, pay · To what, where: place, one house, visit, nodding

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, boy, days, great deal), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 happy	advmod
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 delighted	cc
4	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 happy	conj
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	2 happy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happy	cop
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 returned	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 returned	nsubj
13	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	advcl
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 returned	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 passed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 passed	cc
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 passed	mark
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 passed	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 weeks	cc
20	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 days	conj
21	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happy	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deal	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deal	amod
25	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 nodding	case
27	nodding	nodding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deal	nmod
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 passed	conj
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 house	nummod
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 took	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 went	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 went	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 went	advmod
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boy	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 boy	amod
41	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 went	nsubj
42	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 took	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 pay	mark
44	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 went	xcomp
45	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 visit	det
46	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pay	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little boy				happy property	tree rules
2	be		the little boy not said here					tree rules
3	return	past	boy				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass	past	days and weeks					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	a great deal of nodding	place	one house		to the other	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme from house=Initial_Location to other=Destination
6	go	past	the little boy			then		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	pay	to-infinitive	the little boy not said here	another visit				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
8	deal			nodding				nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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