Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 58
None of his friends came to see him, there were too many stairs to mount up.
Who acts: None, many stairs · What happens: come, see, be, mount up · To what, where: 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 (None, many stairs), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stairs | amod |
| 14 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 mount | mark |
| 16 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stairs | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 mount | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | None | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | None not said here | soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | be | past | many stairs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount up | to-infinitive | many stairs not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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