Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 206
On his way there and on his return he passed by the house of tax-collector Sivert, by the town-gate.
Who acts: Norway · What happens: pass, return · To what, where: return
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 (Norway), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 return | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 return | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 return | nmod:poss |
| 8 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 collector | case |
| 15 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 collector | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 tax | punct |
| 17 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 18 | Sivert | Sivert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 collector | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gate | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 gate | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gate | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gate | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 town | punct |
| 24 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passed | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Norway | Norway's return not said here | by the house of tax collector | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent return=Theme by house=Destination | |||
| 2 | return | Norway | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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