Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 13
"So I went forth into the world, and turned my steps towards the west, that I might become a poet.
Who acts: grandmother, my · What happens: go, turn, become, step · To what, where: world, steps, west, poet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 steps | nmod:poss |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obj |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 west | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 west | det |
| 16 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 become | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turned | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 poet | det |
| 23 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | grandmother | the world | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | grandmother not said here | my steps | the west | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme towards west=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | become in a quote | might | grandmother | a poet | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | step in a quote | my | nom step «act 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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