Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 58

In the evening his father was going to carry the parcel to the town to see his son once more, and take him a farewell greeting from his mother.

Who acts: father, farewell · What happens: go, carry, see, take, greet · To what, where: parcel, town, son, sailor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, farewell), 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 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	obl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 parcel	det
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 carry	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 see	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 farewell	det
26	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
27	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 farewell	acl
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 greeting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	sailor's father			evening		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	carry	to-infinitive	sailor's father not said here	the parcel	the town			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme to town=Destination
3	see	to-infinitive	sailor's father not said here	sailor's son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
4	take	infinitive	sailor's father not said here	sailor				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme farewell=Destination
5	greet speech: greet	gerund	a farewell not said here				from sailor's mother	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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