Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 98
All things change; Molly's father left his old home, and Molly went with him far away.
Who acts: things, father, Molly · What happens: change, leave, go · To what, where: old home
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 (things, father, Molly), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 5 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Molly | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 home | amod |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | obl |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | all things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | Molly's father | father's old home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Molly | with father; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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