Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 10

"For many nights I followed the train.

Who acts: women · What happens: follow · To what, where: train

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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	_	6 followed	punct
2	For	for	ADP	_	4 nights	case
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nights	amod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 followed	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 train	det
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow in a quote	past	the women = woman	the train			night		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=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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