Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 27
Her thoughts wandered away from her home, wandered to the temple, but not for the sake of holy things.
Who acts: thoughts, light · What happens: wander away, wander, think · To what, where: home, temple
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, light), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 2 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 temple | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 temple | det |
| 12 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sake | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sake | cc |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 sake | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sake | det |
| 18 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 things | case |
| 20 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sake | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander away | past | light's thoughts | light's home | for the sake of holy things; away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wander | past | light's thoughts not said here | the temple | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to temple=Destination | ||||
| 3 | think | light | nom thought «cognition 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: «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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