Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 98

As soon as the merchant's son had come down in his flying trunk to the wood after the fireworks, he thought, "I will go back into the town now, and hear what they think of the entertainment."

Who acts: son, fireworks · What happens: come down, fly, think, go back, hear · To what, where: flying trunk, town · Speech: someone speaks here

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, fireworks), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 come	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 merchant	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 trunk	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 trunk	nmod:poss
13	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 trunk	amod
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trunk	nmod
18	after	after	ADP	_	20 fireworks	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fireworks	det
20	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 trunk	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thought	ccomp
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 town	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 town	det
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 go	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hear	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hear	cc
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 hear	obj
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 think	nsubj
39	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 what	acl:relcl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 entertainment	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 entertainment	det
42	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 think	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past · perfect	the merchant's son	son's flying trunk to the wood after the fireworks		down, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in trunk=Location
2	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	son				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go back in a quote	future	son	the town	now		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	hear in a quote	infinitive	son not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	fireworks = firework			of the entertainment	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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