Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 65

And the young man had to climb across the palings again, and to break off the calyx of the thistle.

Who acts: young man · What happens: have, climb, break off · To what, where: palings, calyx

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 climb	mark
7	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 palings	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palings	det
10	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 climb	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 climb	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 break	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 break	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 break	mark
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 climb	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 break	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 calyx	det
18	calyx	calyx	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 break	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 thistle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thistle	det
21	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calyx	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	the young man				tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive	the young man not said here		the palings	again	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across paling=Trajectory
3	break off	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	the calyx of the thistle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calyx=Patient

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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