Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 8

At the same time, these children were very careful not to go too near the water; indeed, the boy was so afraid of it, that in the summer, while the other children were splashing about in the sea, nothing could entice him to join them.

Who acts: children, boy, other children, nothing · What happens: be, not go, splash about, entice, join · To what, where: water, sea, boy, children

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, boy, other children, nothing), 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	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 careful	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 careful	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 careful	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 careful	advmod
10	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 go	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 careful	advcl
14	too	too	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 afraid	punct
19	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	25 afraid	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 indeed	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 afraid	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 afraid	advmod
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 careful	advcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 summer	punct
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 summer	mark
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 summer	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 summer	det
32	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 afraid	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 splashing	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 splashing	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 children	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 children	amod
37	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 splashing	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 splashing	aux
39	splashing	splash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 afraid	advcl
40	about	about	ADV	_	39 splashing	advmod
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 splashing	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 entice	punct
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	47 entice	nsubj
46	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 entice	aux
47	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 afraid	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 entice	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 join	mark
50	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 entice	xcomp
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 join	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this children			time	careful property	tree rules
2	not go	to-infinitive	this children not said here		the water			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near water=Location
3	is	past	the boy				of water; afraid, indeed property	tree rules
4	splash about	past · progressive	the other children		the sea		about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
5	entice	could	nothing	boy				tree rules
6	join	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	children = child				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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