Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 93
The dog did not observe how the flour ran out of the bag all the way from the castle wall to the soldier's house, and even up to the window, where he had climbed with the princess.
Who acts: dog, flour · What happens: not observe, run, climb · To what, where: way, bag
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, flour), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 observe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 observe | advmod |
| 5 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 ran | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flour | det |
| 8 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 observe | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 way | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wall | compound |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soldier | det |
| 23 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 soldier | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 window | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 window | cc |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 32 window | advmod |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 window | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 window | det |
| 32 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observe | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 climbed | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 climbed | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 climbed | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 climbed | aux |
| 37 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 window | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 princess | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 princess | det |
| 40 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 climbed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not observe | past · do-support | the dog | up the window | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | the flour | all way | the bag | from the castle wall; to the soldier's house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent out bag=Initial_Location from wall=Trajectory to house=Destination | ||
| 3 | climb | past · perfect | dog | with the princess | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: 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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