Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 50

The king's son also received several good scratches, but the sun was shining on his way, and it is he whom we will now follow, for he was a quick fellow. "

Who acts: son, sun, hand, we · What happens: receive, shine, be, follow · To what, where: several good scratches, way, quick fellow

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 (son, sun, hand, we), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 received	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 received	advmod
6	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scratches	amod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scratches	amod
9	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 received	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shining	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 shining	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shining	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shining	aux
15	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 received	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 way	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shining	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 whom	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 whom	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 whom	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 whom	cop
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 whom	nsubj
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 follow	obj
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 follow	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 follow	aux
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 follow	advmod
28	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 received	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 fellow	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fellow	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fellow	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 follow	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	receive	past	the king's son	several good scratches			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scratch=Theme
2	shine	past · progressive	the sun		son's way		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	is a	present	hand				tree rules
4	follow	future	we			now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	son	a quick fellow			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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