Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 11

And at length they reached Finland, and knocked at the chimney of the Finland woman's hut, for it had no door above the ground.

Who acts: Flash, hut · What happens: reach, knock, have · To what, where: Finland, length, door, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flash, hut), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 reached	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 length	case
3	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 knocked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 knocked	cc
9	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 chimney	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chimney	det
12	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knocked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 woman	compound
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hut	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 woman	case
18	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chimney	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 had	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knocked	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	above	above	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Flash	Finland	length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent finland=Theme at length=Asset
2	knock	past	Flash not said here			at the chimney of the Finland woman's hut	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at chimney=Patient
3	have	past	hut	no door	the ground		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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