Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 109

"Help the gentleman to carry his box of colors," said the woman to the boy; and he obeyed instantly, took the box, and followed the painter.

Who acts: gentleman, woman · What happens: help, carry, say, obey, take, follow · To what, where: gentleman, box, painter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, woman), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
2	Help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gentleman	det
4	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Help	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 carry	mark
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Help	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 box	nmod:poss
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 colors	case
10	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 box	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Help	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 boy	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woman	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 obeyed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 obeyed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 obeyed	nsubj
22	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 obeyed	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 obeyed	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 box	det
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 followed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 followed	cc
30	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 painter	det
32	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 followed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	infinitive		the gentleman		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent gentleman=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	the gentleman not said here	gentleman's box of colors		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the woman to the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	obey	past	gentleman		instantly property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	gentleman not said here	the box		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	follow	past	gentleman not said here	the painter		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painter=Theme

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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