Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 32

Then John turned to have one more look at the old church, in which he had been christened in his infancy, and where his father had taken him every Sunday to hear the service and join in singing the psalms.

Who acts: John, father · What happens: turn, have, christen, take, hear, join · To what, where: one more look, old church, John, infancy, service, psalms

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, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 look	nummod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 look	amod
8	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 church	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 church	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 church	amod
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 christened	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 christened	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 christened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 christened	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 christened	aux:pass
19	christened	christen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turned	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 infancy	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 infancy	nmod:poss
22	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 christened	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taken	cc
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 taken	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 turned	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	obj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 Sunday	det
32	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 taken	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 hear	mark
34	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 taken	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 service	det
36	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hear	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 join	cc
38	join	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hear	conj
39	in	in	SCONJ	_	40 singing	mark
40	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 join	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 psalms	det
42	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 singing	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	past	John				then	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	John not said here	one more look		the old church		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient
3	christen	past · perfect · passive		John		John's infancy		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result
4	take	past · perfect	John's father		John		sunday	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	hear	to-infinitive	John's father not said here	the service				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer service=Stimulus
6	join	present	John's father not said here					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	sing speech: express	gerund	John's father not said here	the psalms				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=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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