Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 51
One day a couple of street boys were paddling in the gutter, for they sometimes found old nails, farthings, and other treasures.
Who acts: couple, boys · What happens: paddle, find · To what, where: gutter, old nails
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, boys), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paddling | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 couple | det |
| 4 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paddling | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boys | compound |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 couple | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 paddling | aux |
| 9 | paddling | paddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gutter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gutter | det |
| 12 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paddling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 16 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 found | advmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 paddling | parataxis |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nails | amod |
| 19 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 farthings | punct |
| 21 | farthings | farthing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nails | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treasures | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treasures | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 treasures | amod |
| 25 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nails | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 paddling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | past · progressive | a couple of street boys | the gutter | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | past | boys = boy | old nails and farthings and other treasures | sometimes property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Topic |
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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