Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 110
On second thoughts, he decided that it was better not to hear any more thanks from Martin, and so he turned back.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: decide, be, not hear, turn back · To what, where: thanks, 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), 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 thoughts | case |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thoughts | amod |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 decided | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thoughts | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 better | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 better | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 better | cop |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 decided | ccomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hear | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hear | mark |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 better | csubj |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 thanks | advmod |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Martin | case |
| 18 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 turned | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 turned | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 turned | nsubj |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | conj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 turned | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Jurgen | on second thoughts | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on thought=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not hear | to-infinitive | thanks | Martin | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic from martin=Source | ||||
| 4 | turn back | past | Jurgen | vn banish-10.2 «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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