Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 72

They stopped at the old willow tree, as the youngest of the baron's sons wished very much to have a flute from it, such as had been cut for him from other willow trees; the pastor's son broke a branch off. "

Who acts: thought, sons, son · What happens: stop, wish, have, cut, break off · To what, where: old willow tree, flute, other willow trees, branch

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, sons, son), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tree	amod
6	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wished	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 youngest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 wished	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 sons	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 baron	det
14	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sons	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 baron	case
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wished	nsubj
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADV	_	17 wished	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wished	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 flute	det
23	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 flute	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	31 cut	mark
28	as	as	ADP	_	27 such	fixed
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 cut	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 cut	aux:pass
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 flute	acl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cut	obl
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 trees	case
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 trees	amod
36	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 trees	compound
37	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cut	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 broke	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 pastor	det
40	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 son	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 pastor	case
42	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 broke	nsubj
43	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 branch	det
45	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 broke	obj
46	off	off	ADP	_	43 broke	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	thought		the old willow tree		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tree=Location
2	wish	past	the baron's sons			as the youngest	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	have	to-infinitive	the baron's sons not said here	a flute	flute		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Patient
4	cut	past · perfect · passive		a flute not said here	other willow trees	for baron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.material PP.beneficiary»: for he=Beneficiary from tree=Material
5	break off	past	the pastor's son	a branch			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=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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