Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 37

When the students come out of class, he walks beside them with a book under his arm, and wearing a black coat.

Who acts: students, boy · What happens: come out, walk, wear · To what, where: class, black coat

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 (students, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 students	det
3	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walks	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 class	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 class	case
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walks	nsubj
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 walks	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 book	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walks	obl
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 arm	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arm	nmod:poss
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 book	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wearing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wearing	cc
21	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 walks	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 coat	det
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 coat	amod
24	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wearing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 walks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the students	class		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient class=Result
2	walk	present	boy		beside students = student; with a book under boy's arm	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory
3	wear	gerund	boy not said here	a black coat		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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