Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 44

Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood before the king's son, in wooden shoes and such a short jacket that the sleeves did not reach to his wrists.

Who acts: something, little boy, sleeves · What happens: rustle, stand, not reach · To what, where: bushes, wooden shoes, short jacket

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 (something, little boy, sleeves), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rustled	advmod
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 rustled	nsubj
3	rustled	rustle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 bushes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bushes	det
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rustled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	nsubj
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rustled	conj
13	before	before	ADP	_	17 son	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shoes	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 shoes	case
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shoes	amod
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stood	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jacket	cc
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 jacket	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 jacket	det
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jacket	amod
26	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoes	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 reach	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sleeves	det
29	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reach	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 reach	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 reach	advmod
32	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 jacket	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 wrists	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wrists	nmod:poss
35	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reach	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rustled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rustle	participle	something		the bushes	now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location
2	stand	past	a little boy		wooden shoes and such short jacket	before the king's son		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before son=Location
3	not reach	past · do-support	the sleeves	such short jacket			to boy's wrists	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent that=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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