Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 68

Then suddenly the poor boy with the short-sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes appeared; he had arrived just as quickly on the road he had chosen.

Who acts: poor boy, boy · What happens: sleeve, appear, arrive, choose · To what, where: road

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 (poor boy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 appeared	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 boy	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 appeared	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 jacket	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jacket	det
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sleeved	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 short	punct
10	sleeved	sleeve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 jacket	amod
11	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shoes	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoes	det
14	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 shoes	amod
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jacket	conj
16	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 arrived	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 arrived	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 arrived	aux
20	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 appeared	conj
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 as	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 quickly	advmod
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	20 arrived	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 road	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 road	det
26	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arrived	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 chosen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 chosen	aux
29	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 road	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleeve	participle						tree rules
2	appear	past	the poor boy with the sleeved jacket and the wooden shoes			then		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	arrive	past · perfect	boy		the road		quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	choose	past · perfect	boy	the road not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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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