Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 22
Each of them wished to visit one of the four divisions of the world, so that it might be seen which was the most favored by fortune.
Who acts: Each, fortune · What happens: wish, visit, see, favor · To what, where: one, world
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, fortune), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Each | nmod |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 visit | mark |
| 6 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wished | xcomp |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 visit | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 divisions | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 divisions | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 divisions | nummod |
| 11 | divisions | division | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 divisions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wished | parataxis |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 favored | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 favored | aux |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 favored | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 favored | advmod |
| 26 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 seen | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 fortune | case |
| 28 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 favored | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Each | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Each not said here | one of the four divisions of the world | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | might · passive | world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | favor | past · passive | fortune | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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