Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 35

The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an iron bar; but the goblin of superstition can creep through a keyhole into a baron's castle just as easily as it can into a fisherman's cottage, and why should he not creep in here, where Jurgen sat thinking of Long Martha and her wicked deeds?

Who acts: goblin, Jurgen · What happens: lock, secure, creep, not creep, sit, think · To what, where: thick oaken door, outside, keyhole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin, Jurgen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
3	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 door	amod
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 secured	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 secured	cc
9	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 locked	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 outside	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 outside	det
12	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 bar	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bar	det
15	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bar	compound
16	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 creep	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 creep	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 goblin	det
20	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 creep	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 superstition	case
22	superstition	superstition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 goblin	nmod
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 creep	aux
24	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 locked	conj
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 keyhole	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 keyhole	det
27	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 creep	obl
28	into	into	ADP	_	32 castle	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 baron	det
30	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 castle	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 baron	case
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 creep	obl
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 easily	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 easily	advmod
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	24 creep	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 can	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 easily	advcl
39	into	into	ADP	_	43 cottage	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 fisherman	det
41	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cottage	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 fisherman	case
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 creep	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 creep	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 creep	cc
46	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	50 creep	advmod
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 creep	aux
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 creep	nsubj
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 creep	advmod
50	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	52 here	case
52	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 creep	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sat	punct
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	56 sat	advmod
55	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 sat	nsubj
56	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	conj
57	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	56 sat	xcomp
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 Long	case
59	Long	Long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 thinking	obl
60	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Long	flat
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 deeds	cc
62	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 deeds	nmod:poss
63	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 deeds	amod
64	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 Long	conj
65	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the thick oaken door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	secure	participle			the outside	by a iron bar	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on outside=Source
3	creep	can	the goblin of superstition		a keyhole	into a baron's castle; into a fisherman's cottage; easily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into castle=Destination
4	not creep	should	Jurgen				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in here=Trajectory
5	sit	past	Jurgen				tree rules
6	think speech: other	gerund	Jurgen not said here			of Long and staircase's wicked deeds	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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