Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 32

Then he went into the third room, and there the dog was really hideous; his eyes were, truly, as big as towers, and they turned round and round in his head like wheels.

Who acts: soldier, dog, eyes · What happens: go, be, turn · To what, where: third room, head

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 (soldier, dog, eyes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
6	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hideous	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hideous	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 hideous	expl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hideous	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hideous	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 hideous	advmod
15	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 big	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 big	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 big	cop
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 big	punct
21	truly	truly	ADV	_	24 big	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 big	punct
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 big	advmod
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	parataxis
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 towers	case
26	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 big	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 turned	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
31	round	round	ADV	_	30 turned	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 round	cc
33	round	round	ADV	_	31 round	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 head	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 wheels	case
38	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 head	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	soldier	the third room	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the dog	there		hideous property	tree rules
3	is	past	soldier's eyes			as towers; big, truly property	tree rules
4	turn	past	eyes = eye	soldier's head like wheels		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in head=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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