Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 41

At first the children cried about it; but afterwards, thinking very probably that the poor lover ought not to be left alone in the world, they ate him up too: but they never forgot the story.

Who acts: children · What happens: cry, think, not leave, eat up, not forget · To what, where: poor lover, world, boy, story

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 cried	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 thinking	cc
10	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	12 thinking	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thinking	punct
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 probably	advmod
14	probably	probably	ADV	_	12 thinking	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 left	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lover	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lover	amod
18	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	nsubj
19	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 left	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 left	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	aux:pass
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 thinking	advcl
24	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 left	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ate	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ate	nsubj
30	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ate	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 ate	compound:prt
33	too	too	ADV	_	30 ate	advmod
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 forgot	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 forgot	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forgot	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 forgot	advmod
38	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 story	det
40	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forgot	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the children			about wickedness	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	think speech: other	gerund	the children not said here			afterwards, probably property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not leave	ought · passive		the poor lover	the world	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in world=Location
4	eat up	past	children = child	boy			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	not forget	past	children = child	the story			tree rules

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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