Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Soup From a Sausage Skewer, sentence 24
They left home early in May, and none of them returned till the first of May in the following year, and then only three of them.
Who acts: thoughts, none · What happens: leave, return, follow · To what, where: three
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 (thoughts, none), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 left | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 left | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 May | case |
| 6 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 none | nmod |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 returned | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 May | case |
| 17 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 first | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 year | amod |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 three | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 three | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 three | advmod |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 three | advmod |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 returned | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 three | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | thoughts = thought | may | early, home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | none | three of thoughts | till the first of May; year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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