Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 114
But after all the people were gone away, the stranger, who came with John, said that he could soon set her to rights.
Who acts: stranger, man · What happens: go away, come, say, set · To what, where: people, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux:pass |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 said | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 gone | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stranger | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stranger | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 John | case |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 set | advmod |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 rights | case |
| 26 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past · passive | all people | the stranger obl; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the stranger | with John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | set | could | man | queen | to rights; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result |
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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