Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 7

Then Tuk ran to the window, and read so eagerly that he nearly read his eyes out; for it had become darker and darker every minute, and his mother had no money to buy a light.

Who acts: Tuk, window, mother, money · What happens: run, read, read out, become, have, buy · To what, where: eyes, money, light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, window, mother, money), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 read	cc
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	conj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 eagerly	advmod
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	9 read	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 read	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 read	nsubj
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 read	advmod
15	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 read	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 read	obj
18	out	out	ADV	_	15 read	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 become	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 become	aux
23	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ran	conj
24	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 become	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 darker	cc
26	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 darker	conj
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 minute	det
28	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 darker	obl:unmarked
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 money	det
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 buy	mark
37	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 light	det
39	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 buy	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Tuk		then	to the window result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result
2	read	infinitive	Tuk not said here			eagerly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	read out	past	Tuk	Tuk's eyes		nearly, out property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic
4	become	past · perfect	window			dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	have	past	Tuk's mother	no money			tree rules
6	buy	to-infinitive	no money not said here	a light			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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