Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 4

Just at that moment the merry old man came in who lived up a-top of the house all alone; for he had neither wife nor children--but he liked children very much, and knew so many fairy tales, that it was quite delightful.

Who acts: merry old man, man, top · What happens: come, live up, have, like, know, be · To what, where: top, wife, children, many fairy tales

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry old man, man, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
6	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 lived	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 top	det
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 a	punct
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 alone	advmod
21	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 lived	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 had	case
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
26	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 wife	cc:preconj
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	29 children	cc
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 wife	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 liked	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 liked	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 liked	nsubj
33	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 liked	obj
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 much	advmod
36	much	much	ADV	_	33 liked	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 knew	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 knew	cc
39	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	parataxis
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 many	advmod
41	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tales	amod
42	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tales	amod
43	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 knew	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 delightful	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 delightful	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 delightful	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 delightful	cop
48	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 delightful	advmod
49	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 knew	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the merry old man		moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live up	past		a top of the house		alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme top=Location
3	have	past	man	wife nor children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	like	past	man	children			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
5	know	past		many fairy tales			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
6	is	past	top			delightful property	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: «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.

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