Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 50

When she afterwards brought out the picture book, he said, "It was only fit for babies in long clothes," and when grandmother told any stories, he would interrupt her with "but;" or, when he could manage it, he would get behind her chair, put on a pair of spectacles, and imitate her very cleverly, to make people laugh.

Who acts: girl, glass, book, grandmother, people · What happens: bring out, say, be, tell, interrupt, manage · To what, where: picture book, stories, girl, book, chair, pair · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, glass, book, grandmother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 brought	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 brought	advmod
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 brought	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 book	compound
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fit	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 fit	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fit	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fit	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 fit	advmod
17	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 babies	case
19	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fit	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 clothes	case
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 clothes	amod
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 babies	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 clothes	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 fit	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 interrupt	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 told	advmod
27	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 interrupt	advcl
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	30 stories	det
30	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 told	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 interrupt	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 interrupt	aux
34	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 interrupt	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 but	case
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 but	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 interrupt	cc
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 manage	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 manage	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 manage	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 manage	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 manage	aux
46	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 manage	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 get	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 get	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 get	aux
51	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 manage	parataxis
52	behind	behind	ADP	_	54 chair	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 chair	nmod:poss
54	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 get	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 put	punct
56	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 chair	acl
57	on	on	ADP	_	59 pair	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 pair	det
59	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 put	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 spectacles	case
61	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 pair	nmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 imitate	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 imitate	cc
64	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 get	conj
65	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 imitate	obj
66	very	very	ADV	_	67 cleverly	advmod
67	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	_	64 imitate	advmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 make	punct
69	to	to	PART	_	70 make	mark
70	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 imitate	conj
71	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 make	obj
72	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	70 make	xcomp
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring out	past	girl	the picture book		afterwards property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	glass				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	book			for babies in long clothes; fit property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	grandmother	any stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
5	interrupt	would	glass	girl			tree rules
6	manage	could	glass	book			vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	get	would	glass		girl's chair		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	put	participle		girl's chair not said here	a pair of spectacles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination
9	imitate	infinitive	glass not said here	girl		cleverly property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
10	make	to-infinitive	glass not said here	people			tree rules
11	laugh	infinitive	people not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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