Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 43

The other journeymen in the shop asked him why he looked so gloomy, and wanted him to go and amuse himself with them, as he was still a young man.

Who acts: other journeymen, Knud · What happens: ask, look, want, go, amuse, be · To what, where: Knud, young man

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other journeymen, Knud), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 journeymen	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 journeymen	amod
3	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asked	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 journeymen	nmod
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	iobj
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 looked	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 gloomy	advmod
13	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wanted	cc
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wanted	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wanted	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 amuse	cc
21	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 amuse	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 amuse	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 man	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 man	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 man	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 man	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	32 man	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 amuse	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the other journeymen in the shop		Knud			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	look	past	Knud				gloomy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	want	past		Knud				tree rules
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Knud not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	amuse	infinitive	Knud not said here	Knud			with journeymen = journeyman	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	is a	past	Knud	a young man		still		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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