Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 19

So I went straight on till I came to the first great ant-hill, and then I set myself to watch, that I might become wise.

Who acts: I · What happens: go, come, set, watch, become · To what, where: first great ant hill, myself

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 on	advmod
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	15 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 hill	amod
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hill	amod
13	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hill	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 ant	punct
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 set	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 set	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 set	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 watch	mark
23	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 set	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 become	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 become	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 watch	advcl
29	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	I		the first great ant hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
3	set	past	I	myself		then		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient myself=Result
4	watch	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	become	might	I				wise property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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