Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 16

In his hand he held a splendid bow, but it had been entirely spoilt by the rain, and the colours of the pretty arrows had run into one another by getting wet.

Who acts: water, rain, colours · What happens: hold, spoil, run, get · To what, where: splendid bow, hand, bow

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 (water, rain, colours), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 held	nsubj
5	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bow	det
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bow	amod
8	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 held	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 spoilt	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 spoilt	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 spoilt	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spoilt	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 spoilt	aux
14	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	15 spoilt	advmod
15	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 held	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 rain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rain	det
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spoilt	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 run	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 run	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 colours	det
22	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 run	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 arrows	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 arrows	det
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 arrows	amod
26	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 colours	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 run	aux
28	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 held	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 run	obl
31	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 one	fixed
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 getting	mark
33	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 run	advcl
34	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 getting	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	water	a splendid bow	water's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in hand=Location
2	spoil	past · perfect · passive	the rain	bow		entirely property	tree rules
3	run	past · perfect	the colours of the pretty arrows			into one result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into one=Result
4	get	gerund	the colours of the pretty arrows not said here			wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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