--- title: The next day came the little boy to whom the playthings belonged, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The next day came the little boy to whom the playthings belonged, and he painted the top red and yellow, and drove a brass-headed nail into the middle, so that while the top was spinning round it looked splendid. Who acts: next day, playthings, boy, top. 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C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, playthings, boy, top), 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:pg27200:195:3 # text = The next day came the little boy to whom the playthings belonged, and he painted the top red and yellow, and drove a brass-headed nail into the middle, so that while the top was spinning round it looked splendid. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 4 nsubj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 playthings plaything NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 43 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 spinning spin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 41 round round ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 44 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the next day | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to whom=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **belong** | past | the playthings | | | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **paint** | past | boy | | | | | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **drive** | past | | a headed nail | | the middle | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nail=Theme into middle=Trajectory | | 5 | **head** | participle | | | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spin** | past · progressive | the top | | | middle | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory | | 7 | **look** | past | | | | | | splendid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/4/) - ↑ back to [The Top and Ball](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/195/)