Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 38
"I now turned and went nearer to the lofty tree already mentioned, which was an oak.
Who acts: rest, lofty tree · What happens: turn, go, mention, be · To what, where: lofty tree, oak
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 (rest, lofty tree), 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 turned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 mentioned | advmod |
| 13 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tree | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 oak | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 oak | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 oak | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 oak | det |
| 18 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | past | rest | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | rest not said here | the lofty tree and a oak | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | mention speech: other in a quote | participle | the lofty tree and a oak not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the lofty tree and a oak | a oak | tree rules |
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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