Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 18

In the park he met a friend, one of our young poets, who told him that the following day he should set out on his long-intended tour.

Who acts: Tis, young poets · What happens: meet, tell, follow, set out, intend, tour · To what, where: friend, park, Tis, long intended tour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, young poets), 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 park	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 park	det
3	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 friend	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 poets	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 poets	nmod:poss
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 poets	amod
13	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poets	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 set	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl:unmarked
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 set	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 set	aux
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 set	compound:prt
26	on	on	ADP	_	31 tour	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tour	nmod:poss
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tour	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 long	punct
30	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 tour	amod
31	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 set	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	meet	past	Tis	a friend		the park		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	our young poets		Tis			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	set out	should	Tis			Tis's long intended tour	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	intend	participle						vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	tour		Tis					nom tour «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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