Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 24

The clock struck twelve, and, with a bounce, up sprang the lid of the snuff-box; but, instead of snuff, there jumped up a little black goblin; for the snuff-box was a toy puzzle.

Who acts: clock, bounce, snuff · What happens: strike, spring, jump up, be · To what, where: twelve, lid, little black goblin, toy puzzle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, bounce, snuff), 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	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 struck	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sprang	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sprang	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bounce	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bounce	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bounce	det
10	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bounce	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	13 sprang	advmod
13	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lid	det
15	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprang	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 box	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 box	det
18	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 box	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 snuff	punct
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lid	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 jumped	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 jumped	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 snuff	punct
24	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	26 snuff	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 instead	fixed
26	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jumped	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 snuff	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 jumped	expl
29	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 jumped	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 goblin	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 goblin	amod
33	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 goblin	amod
34	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jumped	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 puzzle	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	40 box	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 box	det
38	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 box	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 snuff	punct
40	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 puzzle	obl
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 puzzle	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 puzzle	det
43	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 puzzle	compound
44	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the clock	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	spring	past	a bounce	the lid of the snuff box			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lid=Theme
3	jump up	past	snuff	a little black goblin	there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past		a toy puzzle		for the snuff box	tree rules

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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