Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 23

The second, a poor boy, had borrowed a coat and a pair of boots from the son of his landlord to be confirmed in, and he had to return them at a certain time.

Who acts: boy · What happens: borrow, confirm, have, return · To what, where: second poor boy, coat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 boy	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	aux
9	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coat	det
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 borrowed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pair	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pair	det
14	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coat	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 boots	case
16	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pair	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 son	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boots	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 landlord	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 landlord	nmod:poss
22	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	25 confirmed	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 confirmed	aux:pass
25	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 borrowed	advcl
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 confirmed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 borrowed	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 return	mark
32	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 return	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 time	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 time	det
36	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 time	amod
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 return	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	borrow	past · perfect · passive		the second poor boy		tree rules
2	confirm	to-infinitive · passive				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
3	have	past	boy			tree rules
4	return	to-infinitive	boy not said here	coat	time	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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