--- title: The Sunday following, the little boy took something, and wrapped it… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Sunday following, the little boy took something, and wrapped it up in a piece of paper, went downstairs, and stood in the doorway; and when the man who went on errands came past, he said to him-- Who acts: Sunday, little boy, man, boy. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sunday, little boy, man, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:19:13 # text = The Sunday following, the little boy took something, and wrapped it up in a piece of paper, went downstairs, and stood in the doorway; and when the man who went on errands came past, he said to him-- 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 downstairs downstairs ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 doorway doorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 38 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 errands errand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 39 past past ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | the Sunday *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | the little boy | something | | | sunday | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 3 | **wrap up** | past | the little boy *not said here* | opposite | | a piece of paper | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in piece=Destination | | 4 | **go** | past | | | | | | downstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **stand** | past | | | | the doorway | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | | 6 | **go** | past | the man | | | errands | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | | 7 | **come** | past | the man | | | | | past *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | man | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/14/) - ↑ back to [The Old House](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/19/)