Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 101

The shoemaker's boy liked the idea of getting the four shillings, so he ran very fast and fetched the tinder-box, and gave it to the soldier.

Who acts: boy, idea · What happens: like, get, run, fetch, give · To what, where: idea, four shillings, tinder box, box, soldier

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, idea), 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 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 shoemaker	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	nsubj
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 idea	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shillings	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 shillings	nummod
12	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 getting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 ran	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	parataxis
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ran	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fetched	cc
20	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ran	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 box	det
22	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 box	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tinder	punct
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetched	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 soldier	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 soldier	det
31	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	the shoemaker's boy	the idea			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme
2	get	gerund	the idea not said here	the four shillings			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shilling=Stimulus
3	run	past	boy			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	past	boy not said here	the tinder box			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
5	give	past	the shoemaker's boy not said here	box	the soldier		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to soldier=Recipient

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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