Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 23
"The journey of the witches on broomsticks is well enough known--that journey is taken on St. John's eve, to the Brocken; but we have a wild journey, also which is national and modern, and that is the journey to Amack on the night of the New Year.
Who acts: we, wild journey, that · What happens: know, take, have, be, journey · To what, where: journey, eve, wild journey, Amack, witches
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wild journey, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 witches | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witches | det |
| 6 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 journey | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 broomsticks | case |
| 8 | broomsticks | broomstick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 witches | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 taken | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 journey | det |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 known | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 eve | case |
| 19 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 John | nmod:desc |
| 20 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 eve | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 John | case |
| 22 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Brocken | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Brocken | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Brocken | det |
| 26 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 have | cc |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 journey | det |
| 32 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 journey | amod |
| 33 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 national | punct |
| 35 | also | also | ADV | _ | 38 national | advmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 national | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 national | cop |
| 38 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 journey | acl:relcl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 modern | cc |
| 40 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 national | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 journey | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 journey | cc |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 journey | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 journey | cop |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 journey | det |
| 46 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | conj |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 Amack | case |
| 48 | Amack | Amack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 journey | nmod |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 night | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 night | det |
| 51 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 journey | nmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Year | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Year | det |
| 54 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Year | compound |
| 55 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 night | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · passive | the journey of the witches on broomsticks | enough, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · passive | that journey | John St.'s eve | to the Brocken | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on eve=Destination | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | a wild journey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | a wild journey | national property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | a wild journey not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | that | the journey | Amack | night | tree rules | ||
| 7 | journey in a quote | the witches on broomsticks | nom journey «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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