Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 59

Then the chimney-sweep tried to reason with her, and spoke of the old Chinaman, and of the Major-general-field-sergeant-commander Billy-goat's legs; but she sobbed so bitterly, and kissed her little chimney-sweep till he was obliged to do all she asked, foolish as it was.

Who acts: chimney sweep, sweep, commander · What happens: try, speak, sob, kiss, oblige, do · To what, where: little chimney sweep, goat, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney sweep, sweep, commander), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 tried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sweep	det
3	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sweep	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 chimney	punct
5	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 reason	case
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reason	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 spoke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spoke	cc
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Chinaman	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Chinaman	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Chinaman	amod
17	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spoke	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 commander	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 commander	cc
20	of	of	ADP	_	30 commander	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 commander	det
22	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 commander	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Major	punct
24	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 commander	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 general	punct
26	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 commander	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 field	punct
28	sergeant	sergeant	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 commander	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 commander	punct
30	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	parataxis
31	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 goat	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Billy	punct
33	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 legs	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 goat	case
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 commander	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 sobbed	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 sobbed	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 sobbed	nsubj
39	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	parataxis
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 bitterly	advmod
41	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	39 sobbed	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 kissed	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 kissed	cc
44	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 sobbed	conj
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 sweep	nmod:poss
46	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 sweep	amod
47	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sweep	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 chimney	punct
49	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 kissed	obj
50	till	till	SCONJ	_	53 obliged	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 obliged	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 obliged	aux:pass
53	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 kissed	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 do	mark
55	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 obliged	xcomp
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 do	obj
57	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 asked	nsubj
58	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 all	acl:relcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 foolish	punct
60	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sobbed	conj
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 was	mark
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 was	nsubj
63	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 foolish	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the chimney sweep		then	to reason with wife	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	speak speech: other	past	the chimney sweep not said here			of the old Chinaman	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sob	past	sweep			bitterly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kiss	past	sweep not said here	sweep's little chimney sweep			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Co-Agent
5	oblige	past · passive		goat			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	do	to-infinitive		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
7	ask speech: ask	past	sweep				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	be	past	commander				vn exist-47.1 «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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