Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 83

But when he saw that a cross had been made on the door of the house, where the soldier lived, he took another piece of chalk and made crosses on all the doors in the town, so that the lady-in-waiting might not be able to find out the right door.

Who acts: dog, soldier, lady · What happens: see, make, live, take, wait, not be · To what, where: cross, door, piece, crosses, doors, right door · 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 (dog, soldier, lady), 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	_	24 took	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cross	det
7	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lived	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lived	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 door	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 took	nsubj
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 piece	det
26	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 chalk	case
28	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 took	conj
31	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 doors	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 doors	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 doors	det
35	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 crosses	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 doors	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 able	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	51 able	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 so	fixed
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 lady	det
43	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 able	nsubj
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 waiting	punct
45	in	in	SCONJ	_	47 waiting	mark
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 in	punct
47	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 lady	parataxis
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 able	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 able	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	cop
51	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 made	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 find	mark
53	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	xcomp
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 find	compound:prt
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 door	det
56	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 door	amod
57	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 find	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	dog				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	past · perfect · passive		a cross	the door of the house		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	live	past	the soldier				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	dog	another piece of chalk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
5	make	past	dog not said here	crosses	all doors in the town		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cross=Product
6	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is	might	the lady			able property	tree rules
8	find out	to-infinitive	the lady not said here	the right door			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic

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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