Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 31
Do you see now that my bow was not spoilt?" he said, and, loudly laughing, ran away.
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: see, not spoil, say, laugh, run away · 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 (you, 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 see | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 spoilt | mark |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 spoilt | advmod |
| 10 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoilt | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoilt | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughing | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 19 laughing | advmod |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 ran | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · do-support | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not spoil | past · passive | my bow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | gerund | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run away in a quote | past | boy not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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