Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 3
And he was to go still farther, for he was not yet fourteen years old when he went out in a ship to see the world.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: be, not be, go out, see · To what, where: ship, world
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 farther | advmod |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 old | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 old | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 old | advmod |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 fourteen | advmod |
| 14 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 old | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 go | advcl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 old | acl:relcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ship | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 ship | det |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | far, go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | Jurgen | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go out | past | Jurgen | a ship | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
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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