Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 23

He never played with the other children, and was not seen with them, unless his grandfather sent him down to sell his curious workmanship.

Who acts: boy, children, grandfather · What happens: not play, not see, send down, sell · To what, where: boy, curious workmanship

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, children, grandfather), 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 played	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 played	advmod
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 children	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seen	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 played	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	19 sent	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 grandfather	nmod:poss
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	nsubj
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sent	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 sent	compound:prt
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sell	mark
23	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 workmanship	nmod:poss
25	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 workmanship	amod
26	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sell	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not play	past	boy		with the other children	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent
2	not see	past · passive	children = child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	send down a condition, not said to happen	past	boy's grandfather	boy		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	sell	to-infinitive	boy's grandfather not said here	boy's curious workmanship		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workmanship=Theme

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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