Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 59

In West Jutland one may go back in thought to old times, farther back than the days when Christian VII ruled.

Who acts: one, Christian VII · What happens: go back, rule · To what, where: West

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Christian VII), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 West	case
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
3	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 West	flat
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 go	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 thought	case
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 times	case
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 times	amod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 back	punct
14	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 back	advmod
15	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 days	det
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 back	obl
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 ruled	advmod
20	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 VII	amod
21	VII	VII	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ruled	nsubj
22	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 days	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	may	one			West	time	in thought	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	rule	past	Christian VII						vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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