Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 9

They jeered and laughed at him, and he was obliged to bear it all as patiently as he could.

Who acts: children · What happens: jeer, laugh, oblige, bear · To what, where: boy, water

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jeered	nsubj
2	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laughed	cc
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 jeered	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 obliged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 obliged	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 obliged	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 obliged	aux:pass
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 jeered	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bear	mark
13	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 obliged	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bear	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 patiently	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 patiently	advmod
17	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	13 bear	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 patiently	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 jeered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jeer	past	children = child			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	children = child not said here		at boy	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	oblige	past · passive		boy		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	bear	to-infinitive		water	patiently property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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