Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 16

He had an earnest, expressive countenance, and held the box containing his carved toys tightly with both hands, as if unwilling to part with it.

Who acts: boy, box · What happens: have, hold, contain, carve, unwill · To what, where: earnest expressive countenance, box, carved toys, part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, box), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 countenance	det
4	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 countenance	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 earnest	punct
6	expressive	expressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 countenance	amod
7	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 held	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 held	cc
10	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 box	det
12	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 held	obj
13	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 box	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 toys	nmod:poss
15	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 toys	amod
16	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 containing	obj
17	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	13 containing	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 hands	det
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 containing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 unwilling	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 unwilling	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 unwilling	mark
24	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 held	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 part	mark
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 unwilling	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 part	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	a earnest expressive countenance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countenance=Patient
2	hold	past		the box		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	contain	gerund	the box not said here	boy's carved toys	with both hands; tightly property	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot toy=Theme
4	carve	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	unwill	gerund		part with box		tree rules

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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