Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 124

The little boy in bed did not know whether he had dreamt it or heard it told; the teapot stood on the table, but no elder-tree was growing out of it, and the old man who had told the story was on the point of leaving the room, and he did go out.

Who acts: little boy, boy, bed, teapot, elder tree, old man · What happens: not know, dreamt, hear, tell, stand, grow out · To what, where: bed, table, teapot, story, point, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, bed, teapot), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 dreamt	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreamt	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamt	aux
12	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 know	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreamt	obj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamt	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obj
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 heard	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 teapot	det
20	teapot	teapot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 know	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 growing	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 growing	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 tree	det
28	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tree	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 elder	punct
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 growing	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 growing	aux
32	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 stood	advcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	35 it	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 growing	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 point	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 point	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 man	det
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 man	amod
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 point	nsubj
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 told	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 told	aux
43	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 man	acl:relcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 story	det
45	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	obj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 point	cop
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 point	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 point	det
49	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stood	obl
50	of	of	SCONJ	_	51 leaving	mark
51	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	49 point	acl
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 room	det
53	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 leaving	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 go	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 go	cc
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 go	nsubj
57	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 go	aux
58	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stood	conj
59	out	out	ADV	_	58 go	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the little boy in bed				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	dreamt	past · perfect	boy	bed			tree rules
3	hear	past	boy not said here	bed			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	participle	bed not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past	the teapot		the table		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
6	grow out	past · progressive	no elder tree	teapot			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the old man	the story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
8	is	past	the old man		the point		tree rules
9	leave	gerund	the point not said here	the room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
10	go out	past · do-support	man			out property	vn interact-36.6 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/72/124/