Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 23

No; when I lived in my dear little lane, I could look straight down into the ironmonger's shop, and had only three hundred paces to the theatre; and now I've three thousand paces to go, military measurement."

Who acts: I · What happens: live, look, have, go · To what, where: dear little lane, hundred paces, thousand paces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lived	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lived	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 lane	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lane	nmod:poss
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lane	amod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lane	amod
10	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lived	conj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	16 down	advmod
16	down	down	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	21 shop	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ironmonger	det
19	ironmonger	ironmonger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shop	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 ironmonger	case
21	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 look	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 hundred	advmod
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hundred	compound
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 paces	nummod
28	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 theatre	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 theatre	det
31	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 paces	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 've	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 've	cc
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 've	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 've	nsubj
36	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	parataxis
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 thousand	compound
38	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 paces	nummod
39	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 've	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 paces	acl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 measurement	punct
43	military	military	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 measurement	amod
44	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 paces	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 've	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	I		my dear little lane			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lane=Location
2	look	could	I				into the ironmonger's shop; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into shop=Theme
3	have	past	I not said here	hundred paces			to the theatre	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Patient
4	have	present	I	thousand paces and military measurement		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pace=Patient
5	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	thousand paces and military measurement not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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