Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 14

A little boy was holding them tightly, and said they were fine peas for his pea-shooter.

Who acts: little boy, peas · What happens: hold, say, be · To what, where: peas, fine peas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. 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, peas), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holding	aux
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holding	obj
7	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	5 holding	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holding	conj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 peas	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 peas	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 peas	amod
14	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 shooter	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shooter	nmod:poss
17	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shooter	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 pea	punct
19	shooter	shooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peas	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 holding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	a little boy	peas = pea	tightly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	a little boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	peas = pea	fine peas	for boy's pea shooter	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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