Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 93

A sailor boy had flung his large cap over the bird, and a hand came underneath and caught the clerk by the back and wings so roughly, that he squeaked, and then cried out in his alarm, "You impudent rascal, I am a clerk in the police-office!" but it only sounded to the boy like "tweet, tweet;" so he tapped the bird on the beak, and walked away with him.

Who acts: hand, You, cap, boy · What happens: fling, come, catch, squeak, cry out, rascal · To what, where: sailor boy, clerk, alarm, police, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hand, You, cap, boy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	aux
5	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cap	nmod:poss
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cap	amod
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flung	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	parataxis
17	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 clerk	det
21	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 back	det
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 caught	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wings	cc
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 back	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 roughly	advmod
28	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	19 caught	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 squeaked	punct
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 squeaked	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 squeaked	nsubj
32	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 caught	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cried	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 cried	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 cried	advmod
36	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 squeaked	conj
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 cried	compound:prt
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 alarm	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 alarm	nmod:poss
40	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rascal	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 rascal	punct
43	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 rascal	nsubj
44	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 rascal	amod
45	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cried	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 clerk	punct
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 clerk	nsubj
48	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 clerk	cop
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 clerk	det
50	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 police	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 police	det
53	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 clerk	nmod
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 office	punct
55	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 clerk	appos
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	55 office	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	55 office	punct
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	61 sounded	cc
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 sounded	nsubj
60	only	only	ADV	_	61 sounded	advmod
61	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 boy	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 boy	det
64	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sounded	obl
65	like	like	ADP	_	67 tweet	case
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 tweet	punct
67	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sounded	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 tweet	punct
69	tweet	tweet	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 tweet	conj
70	;	;	PUNCT	_	74 tapped	punct
71	"	"	PUNCT	_	74 tapped	punct
72	so	so	ADV	_	74 tapped	advmod
73	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 tapped	nsubj
74	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flung	parataxis
75	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 bird	det
76	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 tapped	obj
77	on	on	ADP	_	79 beak	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 beak	det
79	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 tapped	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 walked	punct
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 walked	cc
82	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 tapped	conj
83	away	away	ADV	_	82 walked	advmod
84	with	with	ADP	_	85 him	case
85	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 walked	obl
86	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling	past · perfect · passive		a sailor boy			over the bird	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination cap=Theme
2	come	past	a hand				underneath property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	a hand not said here	the clerk			by the back and wings; roughly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clerk=Theme
4	squeak	past	hand					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cry out speech: express	past	hand not said here		boy's alarm	then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alarm=Location
6	rascal in a quote		You					tree rules
7	is a in a quote	present	hand	a clerk	the police			tree rules
8	sound	past	cap				to the boy; like tweet and tweet	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to boy=Experiencer
9	tap	past	hand	the bird			on the beak	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bird=Instrument on beak=Patient
10	walk away	past	hand not said here				with boy; away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	alarm		boy					nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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