Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 68
He had followed his own path, and had reached the spot just as soon as the son of the king had done.
Who acts: king · What happens: follow, reach, do · To what, where: wood, spot, son
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | aux |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 path | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 path | amod |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | aux |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 reached | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soon | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 son | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | wood | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme path=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | the spot | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the king | the son not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
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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