Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 57

In olden times I had beautiful fish, and now I have fresh, rosy-cheeked boys in the bottom of the bottle, and they learn wisdom, Hebrew and Greek."

Who acts: I, towns · What happens: have, cheek, learn · To what, where: beautiful fish, fresh cheeked boys, bottom, wisdom

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, towns), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 have	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
13	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 boys	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fresh	punct
15	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cheeked	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 rosy	punct
17	cheeked	cheek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 boys	amod
18	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 bottom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 boys	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bottle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bottle	det
24	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bottom	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 learn	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 learn	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 learn	nsubj
28	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
29	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 learn	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Hebrew	punct
31	Hebrew	Hebrew	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 learn	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Greek	cc
33	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Hebrew	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 learn	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 learn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	beautiful fish		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	have	present	I	fresh cheeked boys	the bottom of the bottle	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	cheek	participle						tree rules
4	learn	present	towns = town	wisdom			Hebrew and Greek obl	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic

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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