Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 111

This song was often in his mouth, and he sung or whistled it on a moonlight night, when he rode on horseback along the deep, hollow way, on his road to Weimar, to visit Molly.

Who acts: song, Sweetly · What happens: be, sing, whistle, ride, visit · To what, where: mouth, song, horseback, Molly

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, Sweetly), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mouth	cop
4	often	often	ADV	_	7 mouth	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sung	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sung	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sung	nsubj
11	sung	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mouth	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 whistled	cc
13	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sung	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 whistled	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 night	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 night	det
17	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 night	compound
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 whistled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rode	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 rode	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rode	nsubj
22	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sung	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 horseback	case
24	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
25	along	along	ADP	_	30 way	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
27	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 deep	punct
29	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 road	punct
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 road	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 road	nmod:poss
34	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rode	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Weimar	case
36	Weimar	Weimar	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 road	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 visit	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 visit	mark
39	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rode	conj
40	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 visit	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mouth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this song		Sweetly's mouth		often property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past	Sweetly					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	whistle	past	Sweetly not said here	song		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	ride	past	Sweetly		horseback		along the deep hollow way; on Sweetly's road to Weimar	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along way=Trajectory
5	visit	to-infinitive	Sweetly not said here	Molly				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent molly=Co-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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