Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 151

And then he talked to him seriously about the wicked deed he had done, and told him that such a wicked man would surely be punished.

Who acts: Heaven · What happens: talk, do, tell, punish · To what, where: apothecary, wicked deed, Heaven, wicked man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 talked	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 talked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	obl
7	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	4 talked	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 deed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 deed	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deed	amod
11	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 deed	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 told	cc
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 punished	mark
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 man	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 punished	nsubj:pass
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 punished	aux
25	surely	surely	ADV	_	27 punished	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 punished	aux:pass
27	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 told	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Heaven		apothecary	then	about the wicked deed; seriously property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent about deed=Topic
2	do	past · perfect	Heaven	the wicked deed not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	Heaven not said here		Heaven			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	punish	would · passive		such wicked man			surely property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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