Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 69

He had no reason for doing so, therefore it must have been the fault of the black goblin who lived in the snuff-box.

Who acts: boy, reason, black goblin · What happens: have, do, be, live · To what, where: reason, fault, snuff box

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 (boy, reason, black goblin), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 reason	acl
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fault	punct
9	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 fault	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fault	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fault	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 fault	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fault	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fault	det
15	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 goblin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 goblin	det
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 goblin	amod
19	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fault	nmod
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 goblin	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 box	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 box	det
24	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 box	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 snuff	punct
26	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	no reason			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	do	gerund	no reason not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must · perfect	reason	the fault		of the black goblin; therefore property	tree rules
4	live	past	the black goblin		the snuff box		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location

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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