Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 36

And all good children, both girls and boys, whom he told about this, were on their guard against wicked Cupid; but he deceives them all the same, for he is very deep.

Who acts: good children, boy · What happens: tell, be, deceive · To what, where: guard, girls · 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 (good children, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
2	all	all	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 girls	punct
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 children	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 boys	cc
9	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 children	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 told	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guard	punct
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 guard	cop
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 guard	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 guard	nmod:poss
20	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	ccomp
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 Cupid	case
22	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Cupid	amod
23	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 guard	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 deceives	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 deceives	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 deceives	nsubj
27	deceives	deceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 deceives	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 same	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 same	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deceives	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 deep	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 deep	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 deep	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 deep	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 deep	advmod
37	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 deceives	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	good children and both girls and boys			about this	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient about this=Topic
2	is	past			girls's guard	against wicked Cupid	tree rules
3	deceive	present	boy	girls = girl			tree rules
4	is	present	boy			deep property	tree rules

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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