Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 14

Many persons now went to the wood, for the sake of getting the place, but one only returned with a sort of explanation; for nobody went far enough, that one not further than the others.

Who acts: Many persons, sake, one, nobody · What happens: go, get, return, sort · To what, where: wood, place, one, explanation

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many persons, sake, one, nobody), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 persons	amod
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sake	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sake	det
11	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 getting	mark
13	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sake	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 getting	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 returned	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 returned	cc
18	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 returned	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 returned	advmod
20	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sort	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sort	det
23	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 returned	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 explanation	case
25	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sort	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 went	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	30 far	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 further	advmod
36	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 went	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 others	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 others	det
39	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 further	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Many persons		the wood	now	for the sake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
2	get	gerund	the sake not said here	the place				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
3	return	past	one				with a sort of explanation	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	nobody	that one			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sort			explanation				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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