Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 12

But the boys went on singing and pointing at the storks, and mocking at them, excepting one of the boys whose name was Peter; he said it was a shame to make fun of animals, and would not join with them at all.

Who acts: boys, name, Peter · What happens: go, sing, point, mock, except, be · To what, where: one, Peter, shame, fun, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, name, Peter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 singing	mark
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pointing	cc
8	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 singing	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 storks	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 storks	det
11	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pointing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mocking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mocking	cc
14	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 singing	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mocking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 excepting	punct
18	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mocking	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 excepting	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 boys	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boys	det
22	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 name	nmod:poss
24	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Peter	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 Peter	cop
26	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 boys	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 shame	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 shame	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 shame	det
33	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	ccomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	advcl
36	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 animals	case
38	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fun	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 join	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 join	cc
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 join	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 join	advmod
43	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	conj
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 join	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	47 all	case
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 join	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the boys				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund	the boys not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	point	gerund	the boys not said here			at the storks	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	mock	gerund	the boys not said here			at storks = stork	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	except	gerund	the boys not said here	one of the boys			tree rules
6	is a	past	Peter's name	Peter			tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Peter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past		a shame			tree rules
9	make	to-infinitive	Peter not said here	fun of animals			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
10	not join	would	Peter not said here		all	with storks = stork	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with they=Co-Patient
11	name		Peter				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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