Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 99
In our time, it would be only a journey of a few hours, but then it took more than a day and a night to travel so far eastward from Eisenbach to a town still called Weimar, on the borders of Thuringia.
Who acts: home, it · What happens: be, take, travel, call · To what, where: journey, Eisenbach, town · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (home, it), 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 time | case |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 journey | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 journey | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 journey | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 journey | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hours | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hours | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hours | amod |
| 14 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 journey | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 took | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 journey | parataxis |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 23 day | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 more | fixed |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 night | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 day | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 travel | mark |
| 28 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 took | advcl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 far | advmod |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 eastward | advmod |
| 31 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 28 travel | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Eisenbach | case |
| 33 | Eisenbach | Eisenbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 travel | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 town | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 town | det |
| 36 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 travel | obl |
| 37 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 called | advmod |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 town | acl |
| 39 | Weimar | Weimar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 called | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 borders | punct |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 borders | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 borders | det |
| 43 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 travel | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Thuringia | case |
| 45 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 borders | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 journey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | home | a journey | hour; time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | it | then; day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | Eisenbach | to a town; on the borders of Thuringia; eastward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to town=Destination | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a town not said here | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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