Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 28
He was a boy full of life and gladness, this drummer's son with the red hair.
Who acts: name · What happens: be · To what, where: boy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 | 4 boy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gladness | cc |
| 9 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 drummer | det |
| 12 | drummer | drummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 drummer | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hair | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hair | det |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hair | amod |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | name | a boy | this drummer's son with the red hair nmod | 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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