Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 17
While he was yet a child, his parents removed from Marbach, and went to reside in another town; but their dearest friends remained behind at Marbach, and therefore sometimes the mother and her son would start on a fine day to pay a visit to the little town.
Who acts: boy, parents, dearest friends, mother · What happens: be, remove, go, reside, remain, start · To what, where: child, Marbach, town, visit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, parents, dearest friends, mother), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 child | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 child | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 child | cop |
| 4 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 child | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 removed | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 parents | nmod:poss |
| 9 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 removed | nsubj |
| 10 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Marbach | case |
| 12 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 removed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 removed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reside | mark |
| 17 | reside | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 went | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reside | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 remained | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 remained | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 friends | amod |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 remained | nsubj |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 removed | parataxis |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 Marbach | case |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 Marbach | case |
| 29 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 remained | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 start | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 start | cc |
| 32 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 33 sometimes | advmod |
| 33 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 40 start | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 mother | det |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 start | nsubj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 son | cc |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mother | conj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 start | aux |
| 40 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 remained | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 day | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 day | det |
| 43 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 day | amod |
| 44 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 start | obl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 pay | mark |
| 46 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 start | advcl |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 visit | det |
| 48 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pay | obj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 town | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 town | det |
| 51 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 town | amod |
| 52 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pay | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boy | a child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remove | past | boy's parents | Marbach | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from marbach=Source | ||||
| 3 | go | past | boy's parents not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reside | to-infinitive | boy's parents not said here | another town | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | parents's dearest friends | Marbach | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind marbach=Location | ||||
| 6 | start | would | the mother and mother's son | day | sometimes property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | pay | to-infinitive | the mother and mother's son not said here | a visit | to the little town | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
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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