Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 21
They all immediately felt a wish to go thither; all except three.
Who acts: branches · What happens: feel, go · To what, where: wish
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 (branches), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 They | det |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wish | det |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | acl |
| 9 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 felt | conj |
| 12 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 three | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 all | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | branches = branch | a wish | immediately property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | branches = branch not said here | a wish not said here | thither property | 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: «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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