Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 2
A learned man once travelled into one of these warm climates, from the cold regions of the north, and thought he would roam about as he did at home; but he soon had to change his opinion.
Who acts: learned man, man · What happens: learn, travel, think, roam, do, have · To what, where: home, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 travelled | advmod |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 travelled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 climates | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 climates | det |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 climates | amod |
| 11 | climates | climate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 regions | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 regions | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 regions | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 regions | amod |
| 16 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 climates | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 north | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 north | det |
| 19 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 regions | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 roam | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 roam | aux |
| 25 | roam | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 roam | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 did | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 did | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 roam | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 home | case |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 did | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 had | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 had | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 had | nsubj |
| 35 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 had | advmod |
| 36 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 change | mark |
| 38 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 had | xcomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 40 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 change | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | travel | past | a learned man | into one of this warm climates and the cold regions of the north; once property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | a learned man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | roam | would | man | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | man | home | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | past | man | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | change | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's opinion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 8 | opine | man | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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