Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 159
The student took his knapsack and betook himself to the ferry-house.
Who acts: student · What happens: take, betake · To what, where: knapsack, man
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 (student), 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 student | det |
| 2 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 betook | cc |
| 7 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 betook | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 11 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ferry | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 betook | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the student | man's knapsack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betake | past | the student not said here | man | to the ferry house | 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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