Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 29

It was a long walk for such a little boy, but he had plenty of strength and invincible courage.

Who acts: mountain, Rudy · What happens: be, have · To what, where: long walk, plenty

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain, Rudy), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 walk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 boy	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 boy	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	conj
15	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 strength	case
17	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plenty	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 courage	cc
19	invincible	invincible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 courage	amod
20	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 strength	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mountain	a long walk				for such little boy	tree rules
2	have	past	Rudy	plenty of strength and invincible courage					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient

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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