Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 44
Next morning, the learned man went out to drink coffee and read the newspapers.
Who acts: learned man · What happens: learn, go out, drink, read · To what, where: coffee, newspapers
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 read | cc |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drink | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 newspapers | det |
| 15 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 read | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go out | past | the learned man | morning | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the learned man not said here | coffee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | the learned man not said here | the newspapers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic |
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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