Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 79

The soldier longed very much to see the princess once more, so he sent for the dog again in the night to fetch her, and to run with her as fast as ever he could.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: long, see, send, fetch, run · To what, where: princess

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.

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 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longed	nsubj
3	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	3 longed	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 longed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sent	nsubj
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 longed	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 dog	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	15 sent	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fetch	mark
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sent	advcl
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fetch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 run	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 run	mark
29	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 longed	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 run	obl
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 fast	advmod
33	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 run	advmod
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 could	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fast	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	long	past	the soldier				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	see	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here	the princess			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
3	send	past	soldier		again; night	for the dog	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fetch	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	princess			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	run	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here			with princess; fast property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with she=Material

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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