Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 53

He wished to go a little way past the sand-hills, out into the dunes, and at last he did: four happy days, the brightest of his childhood, fell to his lot, and the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland, all the happiness and sunshine of his home, were concentrated in these.

Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: wish, go, do, fall, concentrate · To what, where: little way, sand hills, last, whole beauty, these

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
8	past	past	ADP	_	12 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hills	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sand	punct
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 out	punct
14	out	out	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 dunes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dunes	det
17	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 out	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 did	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 did	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 last	case
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 did	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 days	punct
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 days	nummod
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 did	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brightest	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 brightest	det
30	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 days	acl:relcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 childhood	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 childhood	nmod:poss
33	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brightest	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fell	punct
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 lot	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 lot	nmod:poss
38	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 concentrated	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 concentrated	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 beauty	det
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 beauty	amod
43	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 concentrated	nsubj:pass
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 splendour	cc
45	splendour	splendour	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 beauty	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Jutland	case
47	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 splendour	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 happiness	punct
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 happiness	det:predet
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 happiness	det
51	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 beauty	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sunshine	cc
53	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 happiness	conj
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 home	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 home	nmod:poss
56	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 happiness	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 beauty	punct
58	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 concentrated	aux:pass
59	concentrated	concentrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wished	parataxis
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 these	case
61	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 concentrated	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Jurgen					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here	a little way	the sand hills		out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past hill=Initial_Location
3	do	past	Jurgen		last	day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	Jurgen not said here				to Jurgen's lot	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to lot=Theme
5	concentrate	past · passive		the whole beauty and splendour of Jutland and all happiness of Jurgen's home and sunshine	these			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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