Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 140
Anthony went to Bremen, and there he learnt what poverty and hard living really were.
Who acts: Anthony · What happens: go, learn · To what, where: Bremen
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 (Anthony), 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 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Bremen | case |
| 4 | Bremen | Bremen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 learnt | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 learnt | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 learnt | expl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 learnt | nsubj |
| 9 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 learnt | obj |
| 11 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 were | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 living | cc |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 living | amod |
| 14 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poverty | conj |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 were | advmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Anthony | Bremen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bremen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | Anthony | there | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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