Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 66
So Jurgen went forth from prison as if to paradise, to find freedom, affection, and trust.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: go, find · To what, where: prison, freedom
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 prison | case |
| 6 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 paradise | case |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 paradise | mark |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 paradise | case |
| 10 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 affection | punct |
| 16 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 freedom | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trust | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trust | cc |
| 19 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 freedom | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jurgen | prison | as paradise; forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | freedom and affection and trust | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Topic |
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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