Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 17

If he went near the farmyard belonging to the count, he was pushed and knocked about, for the men and the maids said he was so horrible ugly; but he was used to all this, for nobody loved him.

Who acts: boy, farmyard, men, nobody · What happens: go, belong, push, knock about, say, be · To what, where: farmyard, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, farmyard, men, nobody), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pushed	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 farmyard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmyard	det
6	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 farmyard	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 count	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 count	det
10	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belonging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pushed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pushed	aux:pass
14	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knocked	cc
16	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pushed	conj
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 knocked	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 men	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 said	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 maids	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 maids	det
24	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 men	conj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ugly	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ugly	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 ugly	advmod
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ugly	amod
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 used	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 used	aux:pass
35	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 this	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 this	det:predet
38	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 used	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 loved	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 loved	mark
41	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	42 loved	nsubj
42	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 used	conj
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 loved	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	past	boy		the farmyard		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near farmyard=Location
2	belong	gerund	the farmyard not said here			to the count	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	push	past · passive		boy			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	knock about	participle				about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	the men and the maids				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is	past	boy			ugly property	tree rules
7	use	past · passive		boy		to this	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	love	past	nobody	boy			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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