Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 22

There was no chimney; so the smoke went up to the ceiling, and found a way out for itself.

Who acts: chimney, smoke · What happens: be, go up, find · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney, smoke), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 chimney	det
4	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smoke	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ceiling	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ceiling	det
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 way	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 itself	case
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 found	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no chimney		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go up	past	the smoke			to the ceiling	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	find	past		a way		for smoke	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Theme for itself=Beneficiary

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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