Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 129
When his time was up, he packed up his knapsack, and went on his travels, singing the journeyman's song,--
Who acts: time, Margaret, journeyman · What happens: be up, pack up, go, travel, sing · To what, where: knapsack, song
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Margaret, journeyman), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 packed | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 was | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 packed | nsubj |
| 8 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 packed | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 packed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 packed | conj |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 travels | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 travels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 singing | punct |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 travels | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 journeyman | det |
| 21 | journeyman | journeyman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 song | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 journeyman | case |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 singing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 singing | punct |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | past | Margaret's time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pack up | past | Margaret | Margaret's knapsack | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Margaret not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | travel | present | Margaret not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | Margaret not said here | the journeyman's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sing | the journeyman | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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