Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 95
In this manner he ascends gradually to the highest.
Who acts: sanctuary · What happens: ascend · To what, where: manner
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sanctuary), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ascends | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ascends | nsubj |
| 5 | ascends | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 5 ascends | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 highest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 highest | det |
| 9 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 ascends | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ascends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | present | sanctuary | this manner | to the highest; gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to high=Initial_Location |
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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