Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 50

They thought if they went there they should be warm, and Ib fancied he should be able to see his father's house from such a high spot.

Who acts: oaks, Ib · What happens: think, go, be, fancy, see · To what, where: house, high spot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oaks, Ib), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warm	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 warm	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 warm	cop
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 went	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fancied	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fancied	cc
13	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fancied	nsubj
14	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 able	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 able	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	cop
18	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fancied	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 able	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 father	case
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 spot	case
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 spot	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 spot	det
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 spot	amod
29	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	oaks = oak				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	oaks = oak		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	should	oaks = oak			warm property	tree rules
4	fancy	past	Ib				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	should	Ib			able property	tree rules
6	see	to-infinitive	Ib not said here	Ib's father's house	such high spot		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

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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