Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 94

The old man sought, and the little boy sought; he was away, and he stayed away.

Who acts: old man, little boy, man · What happens: seek, be, stay away

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, little boy, man), 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 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sought	nsubj
4	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sought	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	nsubj
10	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 away	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 away	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 away	cop
14	away	away	ADV	_	4 sought	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stayed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stayed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stayed	nsubj
18	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sought	conj
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 stayed	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	seek	past	the old man		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seek	past	the little boy		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	man	away property	tree rules
4	stay away	past	man	away property	vn exist-47.1 «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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