Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 24
In his boyhood he had already started on a journey, for his desire was to see foreign lands and strange people.
Who acts: husband, desire · What happens: start, see, desire · To what, where: boyhood, foreign lands
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, desire), 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 boyhood | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 3 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 started | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 started | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 started | advmod |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nmod:poss |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 started | conj |
| 18 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lands | amod |
| 19 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 people | cc |
| 21 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lands | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect | husband | husband's boyhood | on a journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | see | past | husband's desire | foreign lands and strange people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | desire | husband | nom desire «feeling 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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