Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 21
A poor half-grown boy in a ragged blouse fought among the older insurgents.
Who acts: poor grown boy · What happens: grow, fight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor grown 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boy | amod |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 grown | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boy | amod |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 blouse | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blouse | det |
| 9 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blouse | amod |
| 10 | blouse | blouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 insurgents | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 insurgents | det |
| 14 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 insurgents | amod |
| 15 | insurgents | insurgent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | a poor grown boy in a ragged blouse | among the older insurgents | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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