Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 25

With stones and mussel-shells he could put together pictures and ships with which one could decorate the room; and he could make wonderful things from a stick, his foster-mother said, although he was still so young and little.

Who acts: boy, pictures, foster mother · What happens: put together, decorate, make, say, be · To what, where: room, wonderful things, stick · Speech: someone speaks here

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, pictures, foster mother), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 stones	case
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shells	cc
4	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shells	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 mussel	punct
6	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stones	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 put	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 put	advmod
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 decorate	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ships	cc
13	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pictures	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 one	case
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pictures	nmod
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 decorate	aux
18	decorate	decorate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 decorate	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 put	conj
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 things	amod
27	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 stick	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stick	det
30	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
33	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 mother	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 foster	punct
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	nsubj
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 make	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 young	punct
38	although	although	SCONJ	_	43 young	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 young	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 young	cop
41	still	still	ADV	_	43 young	advmod
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 young	advmod
43	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 said	ccomp
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 little	cc
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 young	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put together	could	boy				with stones and mussel shells; together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	decorate	could	pictures with which one and ships	the room				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination
3	make	could	boy	wonderful things	a stick			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent thing=Product from stick=Material
4	say speech: assert	past	boy's foster mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	boy			still	young property	tree rules
6	be		boy not said here					tree rules

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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