Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 29
Early the next morning, John packed up his little bundle of clothes, and placed all his money, which consisted of fifty dollars and a few shillings, in his girdle; with this he determined to try his fortune in the world.
Who acts: John, money · What happens: pack up, place, consist, determine, try · To what, where: little bundle, money, girdle, fortune, world
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, money), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | nsubj |
| 7 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 packed | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bundle | amod |
| 11 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 packed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 bundle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 packed | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 money | det:predet |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 money | nmod:poss |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 consisted | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 consisted | nsubj |
| 22 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 money | acl:relcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dollars | case |
| 24 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 dollars | nummod |
| 25 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 consisted | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shillings | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 shillings | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shillings | amod |
| 29 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dollars | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 girdle | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 girdle | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 33 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 determined | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 this | case |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 determined | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 determined | nsubj |
| 38 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 packed | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 try | mark |
| 40 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 determined | xcomp |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 try | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 world | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 try | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | past | John | John's little bundle of clothes | morning | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | John not said here | John's money | John's girdle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme in girdle=Destination | |||
| 3 | consist | past | John's money | of fifty dollars and a few shillings | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | determine | past | John | with this | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | John not said here | John's fortune | the world | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
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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