Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 68

He found the house that he sought easily, but had to mount so many stairs that he became quite giddy; it surprised him to find how people lived over one another in this dreadful town.

Who acts: nearer, many stairs, house, people · What happens: find, seek, have, mount, become, surprise · To what, where: house, many stairs, nearer, dreadful town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nearer, many stairs, house, people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sought	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	advcl
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 sought	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mount	mark
13	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stairs	amod
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mount	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 became	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stairs	acl:relcl
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 giddy	advmod
21	giddy	giddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 became	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 surprised	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 surprised	nsubj
24	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 surprised	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 surprised	advcl
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 lived	advmod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lived	nsubj
30	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 find	ccomp
31	over	over	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 lived	obl
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 one	fixed
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 town	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 town	det
36	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 town	amod
37	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lived	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	nearer = near	the house			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic
2	seek	past	nearer = near			easily property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	nearer = near not said here				tree rules
4	mount	to-infinitive	nearer = near not said here	many stairs			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient
5	become	past	many stairs			giddy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	surprise	past	house	nearer = near			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
7	find	to-infinitive	house not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	live	past	people		this dreadful town	over one	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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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