Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 69
Just by him stood a boy, splashing with his stick in a marshy ditch.
Who acts: strength · What happens: stand, splash · To what, where: boy, marshy ditch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 splashing | punct |
| 8 | splashing | splash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stick | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stick | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splashing | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ditch | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ditch | det |
| 14 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ditch | amod |
| 15 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 splashing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | strength | a boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | splash | gerund | strength not said here | a marshy ditch | with strength's stick | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ditch=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/69/