Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 57

So he was obliged to leave his elegant rooms, and live in a little garret under the roof, where he had to clean his own boots, and even mend them with a large needle.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: oblige, leave, live, have, clean, mend · To what, where: soldier, elegant rooms, little garret, own boots, boots

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:13097): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 obliged	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 leave	mark
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rooms	nmod:poss
8	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rooms	amod
9	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 live	cc
12	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 leave	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 garret	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 garret	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 garret	amod
16	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 live	obl
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 garret	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 had	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 garret	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 clean	mark
25	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 boots	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boots	amod
28	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 clean	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mend	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mend	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 mend	advmod
32	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 clean	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 mend	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 needle	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 needle	det
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 needle	amod
37	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 mend	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		soldier			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	leave	to-infinitive		soldier's elegant rooms			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
3	live	infinitive			a little garret under the roof		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location
4	have	past	soldier				tree rules
5	clean	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier's own boots			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boot=Patient
6	mend	infinitive	soldier not said here	boots = boot		with a large needle	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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