Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 7

Then he took it into his head to measure how many steps he would have to go through the roads and cross-roads that are on the leaf of a linden-tree.

Who acts: prettiest, many steps, that · What happens: take, measure, have, go, be · To what, where: flower, head, many steps, roads, leaf

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest, many steps, that), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 measure	mark
9	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	advcl
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 steps	amod
12	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 measure	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 steps	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 roads	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roads	det
20	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cross-roads	cc
22	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roads	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 leaf	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 leaf	cop
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 leaf	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaf	det
27	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 roads	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 tree	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 tree	det
30	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tree	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 linden	punct
32	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leaf	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	prettiest = pretty	flower	prettiest's head	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
2	measure	to-infinitive	prettiest = pretty not said here	many steps				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme step=Value
3	have	would	prettiest = pretty	many steps not said here				tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	many steps not said here		the roads and cross-roads and the leaf			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through road=Initial_Location
5	is	present	that		the leaf		of a linden tree	tree rules

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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