Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 28

He was ugly, and his hair was matted, and he looked crippled and stunted; they called him the field-laborer's boy, though in the church register he was entered as Anne Lisbeth's son.

Who acts: boy, hands · What happens: be, mat, look, stunt, call, enter · To what, where: hair, boy, church register · 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, hands), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ugly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	cop
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 matted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 matted	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 matted	aux:pass
9	matted	mat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ugly	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 matted	conj
14	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looked	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stunted	cc
16	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 crippled	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ugly	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 laborer	det
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laborer	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 field	punct
24	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 boy	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 laborer	case
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 entered	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 entered	mark
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 register	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 register	det
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 register	compound
32	register	register	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 entered	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 entered	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 entered	aux:pass
35	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 called	conj
36	as	as	ADP	_	40 son	case
37	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 son	nmod:poss
38	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Anne	flat
39	's	's	PART	_	37 Anne	case
40	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 entered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ugly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	boy				ugly property	tree rules
2	mat	past · passive		boy's hair				tree rules
3	look	past	boy				crippled property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	stunt	participle	boy not said here					tree rules
5	call	past	hands = hand		boy			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	enter	past · passive		boy		the church register	as Anne's son	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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