Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 12
Did he drive away to meet death, or hasten to the embraces of his beloved?
Who acts: door · What happens: drive away, meet, hasten, belov · To what, where: death, embraces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | nsubj |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 meet | mark |
| 6 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drive | xcomp |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 meet | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 hasten | cc |
| 10 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drive | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 embraces | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 embraces | det |
| 13 | embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hasten | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 beloved | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 embraces | acl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | past · do-support | door | away property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | door not said here | death | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | hasten | infinitive | door not said here | the embraces | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to embrace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | belov | participle | the embraces not said here | tree rules |
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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