Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 80

The poor child ran till he was quite out of breath; at last he stopped at the church, the doors of which were opened to him the night before, and went in.

Who acts: poor child, boy · What happens: run, be, stop, open, go in · To what, where: breath, last, boy

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child, boy), 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 child	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 breath	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 breath	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 breath	cop
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 breath	advmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 breath	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 breath	case
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stopped	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopped	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stopped	nsubj
16	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 church	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 church	det
19	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stopped	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 doors	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 doors	det
22	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 church	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 opened	obl
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 opened	aux:pass
26	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 doors	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 opened	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADV	_	26 opened	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 went	cc
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stopped	conj
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the poor child					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	boy		breath			tree rules
3	stop	past	boy		last		at the church and the doors	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	open	past · passive		boy		night	of the doors; before property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to he=Recipient
5	go in	past	boy not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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