Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 51

By-and-by he began to mimic the speech and gait of persons in the street.

Who acts: glass · What happens: begin, mimic · To what, where: speech

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 (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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 began	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 -	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 mimic	mark
9	mimic	mimic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 speech	det
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mimic	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gait	cc
13	gait	gait	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speech	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 persons	case
15	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gait	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 street	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 street	det
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 persons	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 -	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	glass						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	mimic	to-infinitive	glass not said here	the speech and gait of persons in the street					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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