Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 108
First she journeyed southward, quite down into the German land.
Who acts: flight · What happens: journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flight), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 down | punct |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 down | advmod |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 10 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 land | amod |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 down | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | flight | down, first, southward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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