Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 31

The servant maid and the little boy went down stairs directly to look for him; but he was nowhere to be seen, although once they nearly trod upon him.

Who acts: servant maid, maid · What happens: go down, look, see, tread · To what, where: stairs, goblin

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 (servant maid, maid), 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	3 maid	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maid	compound
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 boy	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maid	conj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	obl
11	directly	directly	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 seen	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux:pass
20	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 seen	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 seen	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 went	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 trod	punct
25	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 trod	mark
26	once	once	SCONJ	_	29 trod	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	nsubj
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	29 trod	advmod
29	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 trod	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the servant maid and the little boy	stairs	directly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	look	to-infinitive	the servant maid and the little boy not said here		for goblin	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
3	see	past · passive		goblin	nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	tread	past	maid		upon goblin; nearly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory

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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