Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 26

I spat at it, to put it out; I spat at it as much as ever I could, but I could not put it out; so I ran away and hid myself, for papa and mamma would be angry."

Who acts: I, papa · What happens: spat, put out, not put out, run away, hide, be · To what, where: match, myself

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, papa), 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 spat	nsubj
2	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 put	mark
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spat	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spat	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 spat	nsubj
12	spat	spat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spat	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spat	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spat	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 could	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 much	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 put	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 put	advmod
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 spat	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 put	compound:prt
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ran	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	32 ran	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spat	parataxis
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 ran	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hid	cc
35	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ran	conj
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 hid	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 angry	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 angry	mark
39	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 angry	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 mamma	cc
41	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 papa	conj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 angry	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 angry	cop
44	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hid	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spat	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 spat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spat	present	I		match		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put out	to-infinitive	I not said here	match			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	spat	present	I		match		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not put out	could	I	match			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
5	run away	past	I			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hide	past	I not said here	myself			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
7	is	would	papa and mamma			angry property	tree rules

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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