Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 28

"But last night the hideous little fellow went out of the town, quite alone, to the deserted churchyard.

Who acts: hideous little fellow · What happens: go out, desert · To what, where: town

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hideous little fellow), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
6	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 town	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 alone	punct
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 alone	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 churchyard	punct
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 churchyard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 churchyard	det
20	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 churchyard	amod
21	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out in a quote	past	the hideous little fellow	the town			night	to the deserted churchyard; alone property	tree rules
2	desert in a quote	participle							vn leave-51.2-1 «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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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