Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 41
They all wanted to follow Hjalmar, and all had some story to tell him.
Who acts: cockchafers · What happens: want, follow, have, tell · To what, where: Hjalmar, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cockchafers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 follow | mark |
| 5 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 follow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tell | mark |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 story | acl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | cockchafers = cockchafer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | cockchafers = cockchafer not said here | Hjalmar | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | cockchafers = cockchafer not said here | some story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | cockchafers = cockchafer not said here | some story not said here | Hjalmar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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