Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 38
The next morning he went out to take his coffee and read the newspapers.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, take, read · To what, where: coffee, newspapers
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 coffee | nmod:poss |
| 10 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 read | cc |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 newspapers | det |
| 14 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | morning | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's coffee | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme | ||||
| 3 | read | infinitive | man not said here | the newspapers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=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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