Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 6

Tuk ran quickly to the window, and read so eagerly that he pretty nearly read his eyes out; for it got darker and darker, but his mother had no money to buy a candle.

Who acts: Tuk, Charles, window, mother, money · What happens: run, read, read out, get, have, buy · To what, where: eyes, money, candle

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, Charles, window, mother), 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	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 read	cc
9	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 eagerly	advmod
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	9 read	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 read	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 read	nsubj
14	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
16	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 read	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	obj
19	out	out	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 got	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	parataxis
24	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 got	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 darker	cc
26	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 darker	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 money	det
33	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 buy	mark
35	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 candle	det
37	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 buy	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	Tuk		to the window result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result
2	read	infinitive			eagerly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read out	past	Charles	Charles's eyes	nearly, out, pretty property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic
4	get	past	window		dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	have	past	Charles's mother	no money		tree rules
6	buy	to-infinitive	no money not said here	a candle		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme

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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