Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 201
Student Holberg wrapped himself up in his woollen cloak, and wanted to go to the town.
Who acts: Student · What happens: wrap up, want, go · To what, where: Soren, woollen cloak, town
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 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | Holberg | Holberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Student | flat |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 8 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloak | amod |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past | Student | Soren | Soren's woollen cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in cloak=Destination | |||
| 2 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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