Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 27

"That would be unfortunate," said the little boy, taking it up and looking at it. "

Who acts: That, little boy · What happens: be, say, take up, look · To what, where: bow · 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 (That, little boy), 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	_	5 unfortunate	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unfortunate	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 unfortunate	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 unfortunate	cop
5	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 unfortunate	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 unfortunate	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taking	punct
13	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taking	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 taking	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looking	cc
17	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 taking	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looking	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	would	That		unfortunate property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the little boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	take up	gerund	the little boy not said here	bow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	look	gerund	the little boy not said here		at bow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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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