Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 72
So off he went in the direction of East Street, and had nearly got to the end of it when the moon shone forth.
Who acts: Christianshafen, moon · What happens: go, get, shine · To what, where: direction
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christianshafen, moon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 direction | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 direction | det |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Street | case |
| 9 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Street | compound |
| 10 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 14 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 end | nmod |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 shone | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shone | nsubj |
| 24 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | advcl |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 shone | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Christianshafen | the direction of East Street | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | to the end of end | nearly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result | ||||
| 3 | shine | past | the moon | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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