Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 3

The next day came the little boy to whom the playthings belonged, and he painted the top red and yellow, and drove a brass-headed nail into the middle, so that while the top was spinning round it looked splendid.

Who acts: next day, playthings, boy, top · What happens: come, belong, paint, drive, head, spin · To what, where: headed nail, middle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, playthings, boy, top), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 whom	case
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 playthings	det
11	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 belonged	nsubj
12	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whom	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 painted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 painted	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 painted	nsubj
16	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 red	det
18	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 red	amod
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 painted	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 yellow	cc
21	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 red	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drove	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drove	cc
24	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 nail	det
26	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 headed	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 brass	punct
28	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 nail	amod
29	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drove	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 looked	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	43 looked	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 spinning	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 top	det
38	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spinning	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 spinning	aux
40	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 looked	advcl
41	round	round	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 spinning	obl
43	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drove	conj
44	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 looked	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to whom=Initial_Location
2	belong	past	the playthings				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	paint	past	boy			red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	drive	past		a headed nail	the middle		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme into middle=Trajectory
5	head	participle					vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	spin	past · progressive	the top		middle		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
7	look	past				splendid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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