Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 6

She had given orders, though, that the boy might play his antics to amuse her child, but must never touch it.

Who acts: lady, boy · What happens: give, play, amuse, not touch, antic · To what, where: orders, antics, child

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 (lady, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 given	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 though	punct
6	though	though	ADV	_	3 given	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 play	punct
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 play	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 play	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 play	aux
12	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 antics	nmod:poss
14	antics	antic	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 play	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 amuse	mark
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 play	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 child	nmod:poss
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 amuse	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 touch	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 touch	cc
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 touch	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 touch	advmod
23	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 play	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touch	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect	lady	orders	though property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
2	play	might	the boy	boy's antics		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antic=Theme
3	amuse	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	lady's child		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer
4	not touch	must	the boy not said here	child		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
5	antic		boy			nom antic «act intransitive»: poss=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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