Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 59
He was a good boy, brisk and clever, and he went to the night school in the Academy now, to learn to draw properly.
Who acts: George, good boy · What happens: be, brisk, go, learn, draw · To what, where: good boy, night school
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, good 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brisk | punct |
| 7 | brisk | brisk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 boy | acl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clever | cc |
| 9 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 boy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 school | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 school | compound |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Academy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Academy | det |
| 20 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 school | nmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learn | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 learn | mark |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 draw | mark |
| 26 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 learn | xcomp |
| 27 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 26 draw | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | George | a good boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | brisk | infinitive | a good boy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | George not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | George | the night school in the Academy | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | George not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | draw | to-infinitive | George not said here | properly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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