Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 15

He thought it was some young chicken that had strayed there, and was raising cries of distress; but it was the General's little daughter, decked out in lace and finery.

Who acts: George, piping, young chicken, distress · What happens: think, be, stray, raise, deck out, cry · To what, where: young chicken, cries, little daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, piping, young chicken, distress), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chicken	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chicken	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 chicken	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chicken	amod
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strayed	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strayed	aux
10	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 chicken	acl:relcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 strayed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 raising	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 raising	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 raising	aux
15	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	advcl
16	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 raising	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 distress	case
18	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cries	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 daughter	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 daughter	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 daughter	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 General	det
24	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 General	case
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 daughter	amod
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 decked	punct
29	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 daughter	acl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 decked	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 lace	case
32	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 decked	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 finery	cc
34	finery	finery	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lace	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	George				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	piping	some young chicken			tree rules
3	stray	past · perfect	some young chicken		there		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	raise	past · progressive	George not said here	cries of distress			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme
5	is a	past	piping	the General's little daughter			tree rules
6	deck out	participle		the General's little daughter not said here		in lace and finery	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lace=Theme
7	cry		distress				nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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