Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 59
He did not like the student, and would grumble when he saw him cutting out droll or amusing pictures.
Who acts: lawyer, student · What happens: not like, grumble, see, cut out, droll · To what, where: student
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lawyer, student), 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 | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 student | det |
| 6 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grumble | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grumble | cc |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grumble | aux |
| 10 | grumble | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | conj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grumble | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cutting | compound:prt |
| 17 | droll | droll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cutting | xcomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 pictures | cc |
| 19 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pictures | amod |
| 20 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 droll | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | lawyer | the student | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot student=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | would | lawyer not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | lawyer | student | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut out | gerund | student not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | droll | present | student not said here | tree rules |
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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