Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 8
She left Skjagen and went to Norway two days later.
Who acts: Miss · What happens: leave, go · To what, where: Skjagen, Norway
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Norway | case |
| 7 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 later | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 went | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Miss | Skjagen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skjagen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Miss not said here | Norway | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to norway=Initial_Location |
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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