Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 145

I went out first in the evening; I ran about the streets in the moonlight; I made myself long up the walls--it tickles the back so delightfully!

Who acts: I, wall · What happens: go out, run, make, tickle · To what, where: moonlight, myself, back

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wall), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 went	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 streets	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 streets	det
13	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 moonlight	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 moonlight	det
16	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 made	obj
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 made	advmod
22	up	up	ADP	_	24 walls	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 walls	det
24	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 made	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 tickles	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tickles	nsubj
27	tickles	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 back	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tickles	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 delightfully	advmod
31	delightfully	delightfully	ADV	_	27 tickles	advmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	I			evening	first, out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	I		the moonlight		about the streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory
3	make	past	I	myself			up the walls; long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product
4	tickle	present	wall	the back			delightfully property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer

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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