Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 140

Then it was carried down stairs and taken into the courtyard so quickly, that it forgot to think of itself, and could only look about, there was so much to be seen.

Who acts: life · What happens: carry down, take, forget, not think, look, be · To what, where: life, courtyard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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	4 carried	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	aux:pass
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 carried	compound:prt
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taken	cc
8	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 carried	conj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 courtyard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 courtyard	det
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taken	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 quickly	advmod
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 taken	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forgot	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 forgot	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forgot	nsubj
17	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 think	mark
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forgot	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 itself	case
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 think	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 look	aux
25	only	only	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forgot	parataxis
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 was	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 much	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 look	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 seen	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 seen	aux:pass
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 much	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry down	past · passive		life		then		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary stair=Value
2	take	participle			the courtyard		quickly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into courtyard=Destination
3	forget	past	life					tree rules
4	not think speech: other	to-infinitive	life not said here				of life	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	could					about property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past					much property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive · passive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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