Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 10

"Poor little thing!" said the poet, and took him by the hand. "

Who acts: poet · What happens: say, take · To what, where: poet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poet	det
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the poet						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	the poet not said here		poet			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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