Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 53
“'But I had a different sort of sailing to that, later; and that, too, for many a year; a long way off, on great voyages.'
Who acts: Granny, different sort · What happens: have, sail · To what, where: different sort
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Granny, different sort), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sort | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sort | amod |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 sailing | mark |
| 10 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sort | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sailing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 later | punct |
| 14 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 sailing | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 that | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 that | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 that | punct |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 many | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 many | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 many | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 way | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | parataxis |
| 29 | off | off | ADV | _ | 28 way | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 voyages | punct |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 voyages | case |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voyages | amod |
| 33 | voyages | voyage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 way | appos |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 voyages | punct |
| 35 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 voyages | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Granny | a different sort | for many | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sail in a quote | gerund | a different sort not said here | a different sort | late property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to that=Trajectory |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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