Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 69

With the child they were successful, but not with the mother; so the old grandfather received his daughter's little son into his house an orphan,--a little boy who laughed more than he cried; but it seemed as if laughter had left him in the cold ice-world into which he had fallen, where, as the Swiss peasants say, the souls of the lost are confined till the judgment-day.

Who acts: children, old grandfather, little boy, grandfather, it, Swiss peasants · What happens: be, receive, laugh, cry, seem, leave · To what, where: little son, house, laughter, cold ice world, souls · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (children, old grandfather, little boy, 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 child	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 successful	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 successful	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 successful	cop
6	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mother	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mother	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 successful	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 received	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 received	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grandfather	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grandfather	amod
17	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 received	nsubj
18	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 successful	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 daughter	case
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 son	amod
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 received	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 house	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 house	nmod:poss
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 received	obl
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 orphan	det
28	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 boy	punct
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 boy	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 boy	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 boy	amod
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 orphan	appos
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 laughed	nsubj
35	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 boy	acl:relcl
36	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 laughed	advmod
37	than	than	SCONJ	_	39 cried	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cried	nsubj
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 more	advcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 seemed	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 seemed	cc
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 seemed	nsubj
43	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 successful	parataxis
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 left	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 left	mark
46	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 left	nsubj:pass
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 left	aux
48	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	60 fallen	advcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 left	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	55 world	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 world	det
52	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 world	amod
53	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 world	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 ice	punct
55	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 left	obl
56	into	into	ADP	_	57 which	case
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 fallen	obl
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 fallen	nsubj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 fallen	aux
60	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 seemed	ccomp
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 where	punct
62	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 seemed	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 say	punct
64	as	as	SCONJ	_	68 say	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 peasants	det
66	Swiss	Swiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 peasants	amod
67	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 say	nsubj
68	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 seemed	parataxis
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 souls	punct
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 souls	det
71	souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 say	obj
72	of	of	SCONJ	_	76 confined	mark
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	76 confined	det
74	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	76 confined	advcl
75	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	76 confined	aux:pass
76	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	71 souls	acl
77	till	till	ADP	_	81 day	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	81 day	det
79	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 day	compound
80	-	-	PUNCT	_	79 judgment	punct
81	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 confined	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 successful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	children = child				with the child; successful property	tree rules
2	receive	past	the old grandfather	grandfather's daughter's little son	grandfather's house a orphan			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
3	laugh	past	a little boy					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	grandfather					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	seem	past	it					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	leave	past · perfect · passive		laughter	the cold ice world			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
7	fall	past · perfect	grandfather					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result
8	say speech: assert	present	the Swiss peasants	the souls				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soul=Topic
9	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	confine	present · passive		the souls not said here		day		vn confine-92-1 «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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