Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 22

The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for miles and miles was full of playthings, for it was a mosaic of pebbles, some red as coral or yellow as amber, and others again white and rounded like birds' eggs and smoothed and prepared by the sea.

Who acts: boy, coast · What happens: have, be, round, smooth, prepare · To what, where: many sources

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, coast), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sources	amod
5	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 pleasure	case
7	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sources	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 enjoyment	cc
9	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pleasure	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coast	det
12	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 full	nsubj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 miles	case
14	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coast	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 miles	cc
16	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 miles	conj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 playthings	case
20	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mosaic	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 mosaic	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mosaic	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 mosaic	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mosaic	det
26	mosaic	mosaic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 pebbles	case
28	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 mosaic	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 red	punct
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 red	det
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mosaic	parataxis
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 coral	case
33	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 red	obl
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 yellow	cc
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 red	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 amber	case
37	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 yellow	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 white	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 white	cc
40	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 white	nsubj
41	again	again	ADV	_	42 white	advmod
42	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rounded	cc
44	rounded	round	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 white	conj
45	like	like	ADP	_	48 eggs	case
46	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 eggs	nmod:poss
47	'	's	PART	_	46 birds	case
48	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 rounded	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 smoothed	cc
50	smoothed	smooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 rounded	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 prepared	cc
52	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 smoothed	conj
53	by	by	ADP	_	55 sea	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 sea	det
55	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 prepared	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the boy	many sources of pleasure and enjoyment		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Patient
2	is	past	the coast for miles and miles		of playthings; full property	tree rules
3	is	past	coast		for a mosaic; of pebbles	tree rules
4	round	participle	the boy not said here		like birds's eggs	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	smooth	participle	the boy not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	prepare	participle	the boy not said here		by the sea	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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