Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 48

The servant, who cleaned his boots, thought they certainly were a shabby pair to be worn by such a rich gentleman, for he had not yet bought any new ones.

Who acts: servant, boots, rich gentleman, soldier · What happens: clean, think, be, wear, not buy · To what, where: boots, shabby pair, new ones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, boots, rich gentleman, soldier), 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 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleaned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cleaned	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cleaned	nsubj
5	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 boots	nmod:poss
7	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cleaned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cleaned	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pair	nsubj
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	15 pair	advmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pair	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pair	det
14	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pair	amod
15	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	18 worn	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 worn	aux:pass
18	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 pair	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 gentleman	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 gentleman	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gentleman	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gentleman	amod
23	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 worn	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bought	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 bought	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bought	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bought	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 bought	advmod
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 bought	advmod
30	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 worn	conj
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 ones	det
32	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ones	amod
33	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bought	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cleaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	clean	past	the servant	soldier's boots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
2	think speech: other	past	the servant not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	boots = boot	a shabby pair		certainly property	tree rules
4	wear	to-infinitive · passive	such rich gentleman				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	not buy	past · perfect	soldier	any new ones	yet		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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