Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 2

This way was more pleasant than the heavy sand road, and besides it was shorter; and he intended to go first to Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg, where the eel-breeder lived, to whom he had promised a visit.

Who acts: way, sun, Bovbjerg · What happens: be, intend, go, live, promise · To what, where: Fjaltring, visit

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 (way, sun, Bovbjerg), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleasant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	10 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 road	amod
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 road	compound
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleasant	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shorter	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shorter	cc
13	besides	besides	ADP	_	16 shorter	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shorter	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shorter	cop
16	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 pleasant	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 intended	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 intended	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 intended	nsubj
20	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 intended	xcomp
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 go	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Fjaltring	case
25	Fjaltring	Fjaltring	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Bovbjerg	punct
27	near	near	ADP	_	28 Bovbjerg	case
28	Bovbjerg	Bovbjerg	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 lived	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lived	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 lived	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 breeder	det
32	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 breeder	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 eel	punct
34	breeder	breeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lived	nsubj
35	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 intended	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 whom	punct
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 whom	case
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 lived	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 promised	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 promised	aux
41	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 whom	acl:relcl
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 visit	det
43	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 promised	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	this way			than the heavy sand road; pleasant property	tree rules
2	is	past	way			short property	tree rules
3	intend	past	sun				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	sun not said here		Fjaltring	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fjaltring=Initial_Location
5	live	past	Bovbjerg				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	sun	a visit			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent visit=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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