Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 48
After this, Knud was bound apprentice to a shoemaker; he was growing a great boy, and could not be allowed to run wild any longer.
Who acts: Knud, father · What happens: be, grow, not allow, run · To what, where: bound apprentice, great boy
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 (Knud, father), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Knud | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 apprentice | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 apprentice | cop |
| 6 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 apprentice | amod |
| 7 | apprentice | apprentice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shoemaker | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shoemaker | det |
| 10 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 apprentice | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 growing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 growing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 growing | aux |
| 14 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 apprentice | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 boy | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boy | amod |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 growing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 allowed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 allowed | cc |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 allowed | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 allowed | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 allowed | aux:pass |
| 23 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 apprentice | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 run | mark |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 allowed | xcomp |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 run | xcomp |
| 27 | any | any | ADV | _ | 28 longer | advmod |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 run | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 apprentice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Knud | bound apprentice | to a shoemaker | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | father | a great boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not allow | could · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | long, wild property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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