Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 24

The third said that he never went into strange places if his parents were not with him; he had always been a good child, and wished to remain so, even after being confirmed, and they ought not to tease him for this; they, however, did it all the same.

Who acts: third, parents, boy · What happens: say, not go, not be, be, wish, remain · To what, where: strange places, boy, landlord · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (third, parents, 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	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 places	case
9	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 him	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parents	nmod:poss
13	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 him	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 him	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 him	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 been	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 been	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 been	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 been	advmod
22	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 child	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 child	amod
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 been	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wished	cc
28	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 remain	mark
30	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wished	xcomp
31	so	so	ADV	_	30 remain	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 confirmed	punct
33	even	even	ADV	_	36 confirmed	advmod
34	after	after	SCONJ	_	36 confirmed	mark
35	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 confirmed	aux:pass
36	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 wished	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tease	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 tease	cc
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tease	nsubj
40	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 tease	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 tease	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 tease	mark
43	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 confirmed	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tease	obj
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 this	case
46	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 tease	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 did	punct
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 did	nsubj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 they	punct
50	however	however	ADV	_	52 did	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 however	punct
52	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 did	obj
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 same	det:predet
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 same	det
56	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 did	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the third				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go	past	third		strange places		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into place=Initial_Location
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	past	third's parents			with boy	tree rules
4	be	past · perfect	boy			always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish	past	the third not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	the third not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	confirm	gerund · passive					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»
8	not tease	ought	parents = parent	boy		for this	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
9	do	past	parents = parent	landlord		however property	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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