Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 49

Hjalmar continued to sail, sometimes through woods, sometimes as it were through large halls, and then by large cities.

Who acts: Hjalmar, wood · What happens: continue, sail, be · To what, where: woods

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 (Hjalmar, wood), 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	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sail	mark
4	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 woods	punct
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 woods	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 woods	case
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sail	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 halls	punct
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 halls	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	16 halls	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 halls	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 halls	cop
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 halls	case
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 halls	amod
16	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sail	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cities	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cities	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 cities	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 cities	case
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cities	amod
22	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 continued	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Hjalmar		by large cities	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	sail	to-infinitive	Hjalmar not said here	woods		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
3	is	past	wood		as large halls; sometimes property	tree rules

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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