Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 4
"From a town in Fezzan I followed a caravan.
Who acts: Moon · What happens: follow · To what, where: caravan, town
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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Fezzan | case |
| 6 | Fezzan | Fezzan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 caravan | det |
| 10 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | past | the Moon = moon | a caravan | a town in Fezzan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caravan=Theme from town=Trajectory |
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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