Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 32

What a naughty boy to shoot the old poet like that, who had taken him into his warm room, had been so good to him, and had given him the nicest wine and the best apple!

Who acts: naughty boy, old poet · What happens: shoot, take, be, give · To what, where: old poet, boy, warm room, poet, nicest wine

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 (naughty boy, old 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 boy	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
3	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 good	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 shoot	mark
6	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boy	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poet	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poet	amod
9	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shoot	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 poet	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 taken	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 poet	acl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taken	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 room	nmod:poss
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 room	amod
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taken	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 good	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 good	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 good	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 given	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 given	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 given	aux
31	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 good	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 given	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wine	det
34	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 wine	amod
35	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 given	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 apple	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 apple	det
38	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 apple	amod
39	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 wine	conj
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot	to-infinitive	what naughty boy not said here	the old poet			like that	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme
2	take	past · perfect	the old poet	boy		boy's warm room		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into room=Destination
3	is	past · perfect	what naughty boy		poet		good property	tree rules
4	give	past · perfect	what naughty boy not said here	the nicest wine and the best apple	boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wine=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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