Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 60

What a picture-book it was; and then the old man went into another room to fetch apples and nuts.

Who acts: old man · What happens: go, fetch · To what, where: room, apples

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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 (old man), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 book	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 book	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 book	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 picture	punct
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 was	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 book	acl:relcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 went	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 book	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fetch	mark
19	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 went	advcl
20	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fetch	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nuts	cc
22	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 apples	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 book	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the old man			another room	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	fetch	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	apples and nuts					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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: «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.

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