Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 94

So he went and bought rockets and crackers, and all sorts of fire-works that could be thought of, packed them in his trunk, and flew up with it into the air.

Who acts: son, sorts · What happens: go, buy, think, pack, fly up, sort · To what, where: rockets, fire works, trunk, air

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, sorts), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bought	cc
5	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
6	rockets	rocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bought	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crackers	cc
8	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rockets	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 packed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 packed	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 packed	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 works	case
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 works	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
16	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sorts	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 thought	nsubj:pass
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	aux:pass
20	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 works	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 thought	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 packed	punct
23	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 packed	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 trunk	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trunk	nmod:poss
27	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 packed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 flew	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 flew	cc
30	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 flew	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 flew	obl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 air	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 air	det
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	past	son not said here	rockets and crackers			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme
3	think speech: other	could · passive		fire works			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	pack	participle	all sorts of fire works	rockets = rocket	son's trunk		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in trunk=Destination
5	fly up	past	son not said here			into the air result; with trunk	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
6	sort			fire works			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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