Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 1

There was once a little boy who had caught cold; he had gone out and got wet feet.

Who acts: little boy, boy · What happens: be, catch, go out, get · To what, where: little boy, wet feet

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, boy), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 caught	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	aux
9	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 boy	acl:relcl
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 caught	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gone	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 gone	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 got	cc
17	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	conj
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feet	amod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 got	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little boy		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		a little boy		cold property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	go out	past · perfect	boy				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past	boy not said here	wet feet			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus

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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