Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 21
On his first visit to Marbach, the town appeared to have changed but very little, and it was not far enough away to be forgotten.
Who acts: town, boy · What happens: appear, change, be, forget, visit · To what, where: first 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 (town, boy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 visit | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 visit | nmod:poss |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 visit | amod |
| 4 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Marbach | case |
| 6 | Marbach | Marbach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 visit | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 changed | mark |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 changed | aux |
| 13 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 appeared | ccomp |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 little | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 changed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 away | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 away | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 away | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 away | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 away | advmod |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 far | advmod |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 appeared | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 forgotten | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 27 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 away | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the town | boy's first visit to Marbach | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive · perfect | the town not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | town | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | to-infinitive · passive | town not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | visit | boy | to Marbach | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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