Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 99
The swallows escorted him, and he followed the swans till he found himself out in the world, and far away from home.
Who acts: swallows, Seer · What happens: escort, follow, find out · To what, where: Seer, swans, world
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 (swallows, Seer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swallows | det |
| 2 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 escorted | nsubj |
| 3 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 escorted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escorted | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 swans | det |
| 10 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escorted | advcl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 found | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 away | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 away | cc |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 escorted | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 away | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | past | the swallows | Seer | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Seer | the swans | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | past | Seer | Seer | the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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