Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 42

Then two little boys came out of the garden; one of them had a large sharp knife, like that with which the girl had cut the tulips.

Who acts: two little boys, one · What happens: come out, have, cut · To what, where: garden, large sharp knife, girl

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two little boys, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 boys	nummod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boys	amod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 garden	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 garden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garden	det
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 had	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knife	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knife	amod
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knife	amod
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 cut	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 cut	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 girl	det
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	aux
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 had	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tulips	det
29	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cut	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	two little boys	the garden	then		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient garden=Result
2	have	past	one of boys	a large sharp knife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
3	cut	past · perfect · passive		the girl		like that	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient tulip=Result with which=Instrument

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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