Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 8
Before him stood a little boy; he was naked, and the water flowed from his long fair locks.
Who acts: creature, water · What happens: stand, be, flow · To what, where: little boy, long fair locks
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 (creature, water), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 naked | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 naked | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 naked | cop |
| 10 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flowed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flowed | nsubj |
| 15 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 naked | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 locks | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 locks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 locks | amod |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 locks | amod |
| 20 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flowed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 naked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | creature | a little boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | creature | naked property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flow | past | the water | creature's long fair locks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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