Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 112

But the lizards continued to run up and down the riven tree; and one said to the other, "Oh, how much I was pleased with the old goblin!"

Who acts: lizards, one, much · What happens: continue, run up, say, be · To what, where: other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lizards, one, much), 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	_	4 continued	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lizards	det
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 continued	nsubj
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 continued	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 run	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tree	cc
9	down	down	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	riven	riven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 pleased	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pleased	nsubj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 pleased	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pleased	cop
28	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 goblin	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 goblin	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 goblin	amod
32	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pleased	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 pleased	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past	the lizards			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run up	to-infinitive	the lizards not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	one	the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient
4	is in a quote	past	much		with the old goblin; pleased property	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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