Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 100

He was, in imagination, once more wandering on the road where, when a little boy, he, with other children, came to sell their curiously carved toy houses.

Who acts: house, imagination · What happens: be, wonder, come, sell, carve · To what, where: imagination, carved toy houses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, imagination), 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	5 imagination	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imagination	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imagination	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 imagination	case
5	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wandering	punct
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 wandering	advmod
9	wandering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 imagination	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wandering	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 road	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 boy	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 boy	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boy	amod
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imagination	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 he	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 boy	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 children	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 children	case
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 he	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imagination	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 sell	mark
28	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 came	xcomp
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 houses	nmod:poss
30	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	31 carved	advmod
31	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 houses	amod
32	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 houses	compound
33	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sell	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 imagination	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	house		imagination and a little boy boy		tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	imagination and a little boy boy not said here			on the road	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on road=Topic
3	come	past	house not said here				tree rules
4	sell	to-infinitive	house not said here	children's carved toy houses			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	carve	participle				curiously property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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