Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 88
But this was not Jurgen's intention; he wanted to see something of the world.
Who acts: this, Jurgen · What happens: not be, want, see · To what, where: intention, something
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 (this, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 intention | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 intention | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 intention | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 intention | advmod |
| 5 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 intention | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jurgen | case |
| 7 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 intention | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 something | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 intention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | this | Jurgen's intention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Jurgen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=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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