Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 79

These he followed, and found himself far away in the north, far from the land of his father, which extended eastward to the ends of the earth.

Who acts: These, father · What happens: follow, find, extend · To what, where: good, land, ends

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, father), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 followed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	conj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 found	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 north	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 away	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 land	punct
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 land	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 land	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 land	det
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 land	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 extended	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 extended	nsubj
23	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 father	acl:relcl
24	eastward	eastward	ADV	_	27 ends	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ends	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ends	det
27	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 extended	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 earth	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 earth	det
30	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ends	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	These					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	These not said here	good		the land of good's father	away property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from land=Source
3	extend	past	good's father		the ends of the earth			vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to end=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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