Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 71

The boy was frightened, and tried to say a prayer, but he could remember nothing but the multiplication table.

Who acts: fault · What happens: frighten, try, say, remember · To what, where: boy, prayer, nothing · 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 (fault), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tried	cc
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 prayer	det
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 remember	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 remember	aux
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 frightened	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 remember	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 table	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
20	multiplication	multiplication	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 table	compound
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nothing	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the boy	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	try	past			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		a prayer	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
4	remember	could	fault	nothing	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nothing=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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