Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 18
So he went back to the wood, seated himself in his trunk, flew up to the roof of the castle, and crept through the window into the princess's room.
Who acts: son · What happens: go back, seat, fly up, creep · To what, where: son, trunk, window
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 (son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seated | punct |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seated | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 trunk | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 flew | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 roof | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roof | det |
| 19 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 roof | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crept | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 crept | cc |
| 25 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 window | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 window | det |
| 28 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crept | obl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 princess | det |
| 31 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 room | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 princess | case |
| 33 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crept | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | son | to the wood result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | ||||
| 2 | seat | past | son not said here | son | son's trunk | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in trunk=Location | |||
| 3 | fly up | past | son not said here | to the roof of the castle result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roof=Result | ||||
| 4 | creep | past | son not said here | the window | into the princess's room | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination |
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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