Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storks, sentence 94

But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to laugh at animals: we will take him a little brother and sister too, because he was good.

Who acts: you, good boy, we, review · What happens: not forget, say, be, laugh, take · To what, where: good boy, shame, little brother, review · 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 (you, good boy, we, review), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12575): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 forgotten	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 forgotten	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 forgotten	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 forgotten	advmod
5	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgotten	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shame	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shame	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shame	det
14	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 laugh	mark
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shame	csubj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 animals	case
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laugh	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 forgotten	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 brother	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 brother	amod
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sister	cc
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 brother	conj
29	too	too	ADV	_	28 sister	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 good	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	34 good	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 good	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 good	cop
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 take	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forgotten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not forget	present · perfect	you	the good boy			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the good boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		a shame			tree rules
4	laugh	to-infinitive				at animals	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	take	future	we	a little brother and sister	review		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme brother=Destination
6	is	past	review			good property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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