Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 39

And then, if they take him by the arm, believing him to be a student too, he sticks an arrow into their chest.

Who acts: students, boy · What happens: take, believe, be, stick · To what, where: boy, student, arrow, chest · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 take	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 take	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 arm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 arm	det
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believing	punct
12	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 take	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 believing	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	17 student	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 student	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 student	det
17	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 believing	ccomp
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 student	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sticks	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sticks	nsubj
21	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	conj
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 arrow	det
23	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sticks	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 chest	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chest	nmod:poss
26	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sticks	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	students = student		boy		then	by the arm	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	believe	gerund	students = student not said here	boy					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	is a	to-infinitive		a student					tree rules
4	stick	present	boy	a arrow		students's chest			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into chest=Destination

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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