Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 156
I once went twelve miles in a coop, and it was not pleasant travelling at all."
Who acts: I, coop · What happens: go, not be, travel · To what, where: twelve miles, coop, all
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, coop), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 miles | nummod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coop | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 coop | det |
| 8 | coop | coop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleasant | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pleasant | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleasant | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleasant | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 pleasant | advmod |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pleasant | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 travelling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | twelve miles | a coop | once property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is | past | coop | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | gerund | coop not said here | all | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
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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