Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 49
"Then we shall not meet," said the king's son, nodding to the poor boy, who went into the deepest part of the wood, where the thorns tore his shabby clothes and scratched his hands, face, and feet until they bled.
Who acts: we, son, poor boy, thorns · What happens: not meet, say, nod, go, tore, scratch · To what, where: feet, poor boy, deepest part, shabby clothes, hands · 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 (we, son, poor boy, thorns), 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 | _ | 6 meet | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 meet | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 meet | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 meet | advmod |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 meet | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nodding | punct |
| 15 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 boy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nodding | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 boy | acl:relcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 part | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 25 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 part | amod |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wood | det |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tore | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 tore | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thorns | det |
| 33 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 tore | nsubj |
| 34 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wood | acl:relcl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 clothes | amod |
| 37 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 34 tore | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 scratched | cc |
| 39 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 scratched | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 face | punct |
| 43 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hands | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 feet | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 feet | cc |
| 46 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nodding | obl |
| 47 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 49 bled | mark |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 bled | nsubj |
| 49 | bled | bleed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nodding | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet in a quote | shall | we | then | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | nod | gerund | the king's son not said here | feet | the poor boy | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient | |||
| 4 | go | past | the poor boy | the deepest part of the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | tore | past | the thorns | boy's shabby clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | scratch | past | the poor boy not said here | boy's hands and face | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bleed | past | thorns = thorn | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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