Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 47
Just think, he even shot an arrow at old grandmother; but that was a long time ago.
Who acts: you, boy, that · What happens: think, shoot, be · To what, where: arrow · 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, that), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 think | advmod |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shot | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shot | nsubj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 shot | advmod |
| 6 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shot | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 grandmother | case |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandmother | amod |
| 11 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shot | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ago | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ago | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 ago | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ago | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 think | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past | boy | a arrow | at old grandmother | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at grandmother=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | that | time | ago 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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