Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 22

Once, when he was a little boy, grandpapa had gone with his parents to see this festivity.

Who acts: Nor, grandpapa · What happens: be, go, see · To what, where: little boy, festivity

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, grandpapa), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 gone	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 boy	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
10	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 parents	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gone	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gone	advcl
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 festivity	det
19	festivity	festivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Nor	a little boy		tree rules
2	go	past · perfect	grandpapa		with Nor's parents; once property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with parent=Beneficiary
3	see	to-infinitive	grandpapa not said here	this festivity		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer festivity=Stimulus

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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