Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 80

But the old lady put on water boots, and ran after him as quickly as he did, and found that he carried the princess into a large house.

Who acts: old lady, soldier · What happens: put, run, do, find, carry · To what, where: water boots, princess, large house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old lady, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 boots	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boots	compound
8	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	parataxis
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	obl
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 quickly	advmod
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 ran	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 did	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 quickly	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 found	cc
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 carried	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carried	nsubj
24	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 found	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carried	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 house	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 house	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carried	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	participle	the old lady		water boots			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on boot=Destination
2	run	past				after soldier	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	soldier					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	carry	past	soldier	the princess	a large house			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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