Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 10

He shut the lid and pressed the lock, when away flew the trunk up the chimney with the merchant's son in it, right up into the clouds.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: shut, press, fly up · To what, where: lid, lock, trunk

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 shut	nsubj
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pressed	cc
6	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lock	det
8	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pressed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flew	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 away	mark
11	away	away	ADV	_	12 flew	advcl
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trunk	det
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	12 flew	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chimney	det
17	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 son	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 merchant	det
20	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 merchant	case
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 flew	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 up	punct
26	right	right	ADV	_	27 up	advmod
27	up	up	ADV	_	12 flew	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 clouds	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 clouds	det
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 up	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut	past	merchant	the lid			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
2	press	past	merchant not said here	the lock			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Theme
3	fly up	past		the trunk	trunk	with the merchant's son; the chimney obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme in it=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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