Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 27

John saw them fly away out of the green trees into the wide world, and he longed to fly with them; but first he cut out a large wooden cross, to place on his father's grave; and when he brought it there in the evening, he found the grave decked out with gravel and flowers.

Who acts: John · What happens: see, long, fly, cut out, bring, find · To what, where: wings, large wooden cross, cross, grave

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 (John), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	fly	fly	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 saw	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 trees	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 away	obl
11	into	into	ADP	_	14 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 longed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 longed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 longed	nsubj
18	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fly	mark
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 longed	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fly	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 cut	cc
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 cut	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cross	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cross	amod
31	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cross	amod
32	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 place	punct
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 place	case
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	40 grave	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 father	nmod:poss
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grave	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 father	case
40	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 place	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 brought	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 brought	cc
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 brought	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brought	nsubj
45	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brought	obj
47	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 brought	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 evening	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 evening	det
50	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 brought	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 found	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 found	nsubj
53	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 grave	det
55	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 found	obj
56	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 grave	acl
57	out	out	ADP	_	56 decked	compound:prt
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 gravel	case
59	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 decked	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 flowers	cc
61	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 gravel	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	John	wings = wing			away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	long	past	John					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	John not said here				with wings = wing	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cut out	past	John	a large wooden cross			to place on John's father's grave; first property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cross=Eventuality
5	bring	past	John	cross	there	evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	find	past	John	the grave				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Topic
7	deck out	participle		the grave not said here			with gravel and flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gravel=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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