Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 48

After all they are ugly roses, just like the box in which they stand," and then he kicked the boxes with his foot, and pulled off the two roses.

Who acts: roses, glass · What happens: be, stand, kick, pull off · To what, where: ugly roses, box, boxes, two roses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, glass), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 all	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 roses	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roses	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roses	cop
5	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roses	amod
6	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 box	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 box	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 box	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roses	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stand	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stand	nsubj
15	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 box	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stand	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kicked	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 kicked	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kicked	nsubj
21	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stand	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boxes	det
23	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kicked	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 foot	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 foot	nmod:poss
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kicked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pulled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pulled	cc
29	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 kicked	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	33 roses	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roses	det
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 roses	nummod
33	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pulled	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 roses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	roses = rose	ugly roses		after all	like the box	tree rules
2	stand	present	roses = rose		the box			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	kick in a quote	past	glass	the boxes		then	with glass's foot	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent box=Patient with foot=Instrument
4	pull off in a quote	participle	glass not said here	the two roses				vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Eventuality

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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