Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 47
In this way the story travelled from poultry-yard to poultry-yard, and at last came back to the place from which it had really started.
Who acts: story · What happens: travel, come back, start · To what, where: way, last, story, place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 8 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yard | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 poultry | punct |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 12 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yard | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 poultry | punct |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 came | obl |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 travelled | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 started | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 started | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 started | aux |
| 28 | really | really | ADV | _ | 29 started | advmod |
| 29 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 place | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | the story | this way | from poultry yard; to poultry yard | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to yard=Destination | |||
| 2 | come back | past | the story not said here | last | to the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | start | past · perfect · passive | story | the place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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