Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 16

The boy throve; the noble blood in his veins was warm, and he became strong on his homely fare.

Who acts: boy throve, Jurgen · What happens: be, become · To what, where: homely fare

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy throve, Jurgen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 throve	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throve	compound
3	throve	throve	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warm	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 blood	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 blood	det
6	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blood	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throve	appos
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 veins	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 veins	nmod:poss
10	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blood	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	cop
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 warm	conj
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 became	xcomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 fare	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fare	nmod:poss
20	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fare	amod
21	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy throve					warm property	tree rules
2	become	past	Jurgen			Jurgen's homely fare		strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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