Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 105

Jurgen proposed to start early in the morning, and on the evening before his departure, when it was already getting rather late, he felt a wish to visit Martin once more.

Who acts: Jurgen, departure · What happens: propose, start, get, feel, visit, depart · To what, where: wish, Martin

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, departure), 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	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 start	mark
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	xcomp
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 start	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 morning	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 evening	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 evening	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 evening	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	obl:unmarked
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 departure	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 departure	nmod:poss
16	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 evening	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 getting	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 getting	advmod
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 getting	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 getting	aux
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 getting	advmod
22	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 proposed	advcl
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 late	advmod
24	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 getting	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 felt	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 felt	nsubj
27	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 wish	det
29	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 felt	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 visit	mark
31	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 felt	advcl
32	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 visit	obj
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 visit	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past	Jurgen		evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	start	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here		morning	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	get	past · progressive	departure			late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	feel	past	Jurgen	a wish			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
5	visit	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here	Martin			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Co-Agent
6	depart		Jurgen				nom departure «act 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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