Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 102

Children came running to him, as he had once done, and wished to sell their wares.

Who acts: Children, house · What happens: come, run, do, wish, sell · To what, where: house, wares

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, 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	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 running	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 done	advmod
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wished	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wished	cc
14	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 sell	mark
16	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wished	xcomp
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wares	nmod:poss
18	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sell	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Children				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	Children not said here		house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
3	do	past · perfect	house			once property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wish	past	Children not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	Children not said here	children's wares			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme

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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