Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 90

Naturally, the first thing done here was to take off the goloshes, upon which the soul was instantly obliged to return, and it took the direct road to the body at once, and in a few seconds the man's life returned to him.

Who acts: first thing, it, few seconds · What happens: do, be, oblige, return, take · To what, where: first thing, soul, direct road, body

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first thing, it, few seconds), 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	Naturally	naturally	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Naturally	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	nsubj
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thing	acl
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 done	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 goloshes	det
13	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 obliged	punct
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 obliged	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soul	det
18	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 obliged	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 obliged	aux:pass
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	21 obliged	advmod
21	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 take	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 return	mark
23	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 obliged	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
29	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 road	amod
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 body	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 body	det
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 once	case
35	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 took	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 returned	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 returned	cc
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 seconds	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 seconds	det
40	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 seconds	amod
41	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 returned	nsubj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 life	nmod:poss
44	's	's	PART	_	43 man	case
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seconds	nmod
46	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 took	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 returned	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	participle		the first thing not said here		here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the first thing				naturally, take property	tree rules
3	oblige	past · passive		the soul			instantly property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
4	return	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past	it	the direct road		the body		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to body=Destination
6	return	past	a few seconds the man's life		body			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result

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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