Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 10

He was gentle as a child as long as the sullen mood did not come over him; but when it came he was fierce, became as strong as a giant, and ran about in the wood like a chased deer.

Who acts: student, sullen mood, mood · What happens: be, not come, come, become, run about, chase · To what, where: wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, sullen mood, mood), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gentle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gentle	cop
3	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 child	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gentle	obl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 child	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mood	det
11	sullen	sullen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mood	amod
12	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 long	advcl
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 come	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 became	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fierce	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fierce	cop
25	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 came	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gentle	parataxis
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 strong	advmod
29	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 giant	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 giant	det
32	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 strong	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ran	cc
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 became	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 ran	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 wood	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wood	det
39	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 deer	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 deer	det
42	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 deer	amod
43	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wood	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gentle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	student		as a child; gentle property	tree rules
2	not come	past · do-support	the sullen mood		over student	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
3	come	past	mood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	student		fierce property	tree rules
5	become	past			strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	run about	past		the wood like a chased deer	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
7	chase	participle				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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