Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 16

Jurgen did not understand the reason of this, but he thought it would be best to turn back, and therefore he himself took an oar and returned.

Who acts: Jurgen, it · What happens: not understand, think, be, turn back, take, return · To what, where: reason, oar · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, it), 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	4 understand	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 understand	advmod
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understand	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 reason	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 best	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 best	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 best	cop
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thought	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 turn	mark
18	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 best	csubj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 he	nmod:unmarked
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	parataxis
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 oar	det
27	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 returned	cc
29	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	Jurgen	the reason of this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	Jurgen			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	it		good property	tree rules
4	turn back	to-infinitive				vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	take	past	Jurgen	a oar	therefore property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme
6	return	past	Jurgen not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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