Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 24

I had to run round and round without getting any farther in advance, and only to make everybody laugh.

Who acts: I, everybody · What happens: have, run, get, make, laugh · To what, where: advance, everybody

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:12468): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 run	mark
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 round	cc
7	round	round	ADV	_	5 round	conj
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 run	advcl
10	any	any	ADV	_	11 farther	advmod
11	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 getting	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 advance	case
13	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 getting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 make	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	conj
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 make	obj
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	I not said here			round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	gerund	I not said here		advance	far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	everybody			tree rules
5	laugh	infinitive	everybody not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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