Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 22

Then he would say he had been out, yet he knew nothing of the green forest in its spring verdure, till a neighbor's son brought him a green bough from a beech-tree.

Who acts: boy, son · What happens: say, be out, know, bring · To what, where: nothing, green bough, boy, beech tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, son), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 say	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 been	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 been	aux
7	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 say	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 been	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knew	punct
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	12 knew	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knew	nsubj
12	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 knew	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nothing	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 verdure	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 verdure	nmod:poss
20	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 verdure	compound
21	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forest	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 brought	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 brought	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 neighbor	det
25	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 neighbor	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	nsubj
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 knew	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brought	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bough	det
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bough	amod
32	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	37 tree	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 tree	det
35	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tree	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 beech	punct
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	boy				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be out	past · perfect	boy					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	past	boy	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	bring	past	a neighbor's son	a green bough	boy	a beech tree		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bough=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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