Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 51
The greatest treasure in the house was saved; and he ran away with it to the roof, and seated himself on the chimney.
Who acts: house · What happens: save, run away, seat · To what, where: greatest treasure, house, chimney
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treasure | det |
| 2 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 treasure | amod |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treasure | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | aux:pass |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seated | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 seated | cc |
| 21 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 seated | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 chimney | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chimney | det |
| 25 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seated | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | the greatest treasure in the house | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | house | with treasure; to the roof result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roof=Result | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | house not said here | house | the chimney | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
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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