Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 7

And now all his friends deserted him, they could not walk with him in the streets; but one of them, who was very good-natured, sent him an old trunk with this message, "Pack up!" "

Who acts: friends · What happens: desert, not walk, be, send, pack up · To what, where: merchant, streets · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 deserted	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 deserted	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 friends	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friends	nmod:poss
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserted	nsubj
6	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deserted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walk	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 walk	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 walk	advmod
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 deserted	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walk	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 streets	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 streets	det
17	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 one	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 deserted	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 natured	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 natured	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 natured	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	29 natured	advmod
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 natured	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 good	punct
29	natured	natured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 one	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sent	punct
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 natured	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sent	obj
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 trunk	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 trunk	amod
35	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 message	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 message	det
38	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 trunk	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Pack	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 Pack	punct
41	Pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 sent	parataxis
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 Pack	compound:prt
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 Pack	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 Pack	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 deserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desert	past	merchant's friends	merchant		now	one of slippers obl	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source
2	not walk	could	friends = friend		the streets		with merchant	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Trajectory
3	is	past					natured property	tree rules
4	send	past		merchant				tree rules
5	pack up in a quote	infinitive						vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: 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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