Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 45

They knew each other: the boy was the one who had not been able to go with them because he had to take the coat and boots back to his landlord's son.

Who acts: sleeves, boy, one · What happens: know, be, not be, go, have, take · To what, where: each, one, coat, son

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 (sleeves, boy, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 knew	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	parataxis
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 able	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 able	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 able	advmod
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 able	cop
15	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 able	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 had	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 go	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coat	det
26	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 boots	cc
28	boots	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 boots	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 son	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 landlord	nmod:poss
32	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 landlord	case
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boots	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	sleeves = sleeve	each			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the boy	the one			tree rules
3	not is	past · perfect	the one			able property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	the one not said here			with sleeves = sleeve	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
5	have	past	boy				tree rules
6	take	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the coat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
7	boot back	present	boy not said here		boy's landlord's son		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to son=Destination

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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