Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 80

The first thing Ib did that evening was to take out of his pocket the little black nut, in which the best thing of all was said to be enclosed.

Who acts: first thing · What happens: do, be, say, enclose · To what, where: pocket, best thing, little black nut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
4	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thing	appos
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl:unmarked
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 evening	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 pocket	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pocket	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pocket	nmod:poss
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nut	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nut	amod
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nut	amod
18	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pocket	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 said	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 thing	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	aux:pass
28	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 nut	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	31 enclosed	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 enclosed	aux:pass
31	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 said	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the first thing			evening		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the first thing not said here		Ib's pocket		take property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		the best thing of all	the little black nut			tree rules
4	enclose	to-infinitive · passive						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»

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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