Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 12

So he betook himself up thither, and smoked his pipe as he made his solitary rounds.

Who acts: blacking · What happens: betake up, smoke, make · To what, where: blacking, pipe, solitary rounds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacking), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 betook	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 betook	nsubj
3	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 betook	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 betook	compound:prt
6	thither	thither	ADV	_	3 betook	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 smoked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smoked	cc
9	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 betook	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pipe	nmod:poss
11	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smoked	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 smoked	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 rounds	nmod:poss
16	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rounds	amod
17	rounds	round	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	betake up	past	blacking	blacking	thither property	tree rules
2	smoke	past	blacking not said here	blacking's pipe		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
3	make	past	blacking	blacking's solitary rounds		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Product

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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