Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 60

The boy was active, pleasant of speech, and good-humored; that is the best canteen, said his old comrades.

Who acts: boy, that, best canteen · What happens: be, humor, say · To what, where: best canteen, old comrades · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, that, best canteen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 active	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 active	cop
4	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pleasant	punct
6	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 active	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 speech	case
8	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleasant	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 humored	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 humored	cc
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 humored	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
13	humored	humor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 active	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 canteen	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 canteen	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 canteen	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 canteen	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 canteen	amod
19	canteen	canteen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 canteen	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 active	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 comrades	nmod:poss
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 comrades	amod
24	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 active	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy		active property	tree rules
2	be		the boy not said here		of speech	tree rules
3	humor	participle	the boy not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	that	the best canteen		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the best canteen	boy's old comrades		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent comrade=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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