Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 36

It is said that the boys are ill-bred, forward lads, but perhaps that is not quite correct, and they will become better as they grow older.

Who acts: that, boys · What happens: say, breed, not be, become, grow · To what, where: chalk, boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bred	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bred	aux:pass
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bred	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ill	punct
10	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lads	punct
12	forward	forward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lads	amod
13	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 correct	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 correct	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 correct	advmod
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 correct	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 correct	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 correct	advmod
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 correct	advmod
21	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 become	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 become	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 become	aux
26	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 become	xcomp
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 grow	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grow	nsubj
30	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 become	advcl
31	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 grow	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		chalk		tree rules
2	breed	present · passive		the boys	forward lads obl	tree rules
3	not is	present	that		correct, perhaps property	tree rules
4	become	future	boys = boy		good property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	grow	present	boys = boy		old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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