Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 60
He wanted something to eat, and a glass of ale to refresh himself; so he turned his steps to an inn.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: want, eat, refresh, turn, step · To what, where: something, peasant, steps, inn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8270): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 wanted | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 eat | mark |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glass | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glass | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 glass | det |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 something | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ale | case |
| 11 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glass | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 refresh | mark |
| 13 | refresh | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 glass | acl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 refresh | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 steps | nmod:poss |
| 20 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turned | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 inn | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 inn | det |
| 23 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | peasant | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | refresh | to-infinitive | peasant not said here | peasant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | peasant | peasant's steps | a inn | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to inn=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | step | peasant | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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