Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 35
John continued his journey, and thought of all the wonderful things he should see in the large, beautiful world, till he found himself farther away from home than ever he had been before.
Who acts: John · What happens: continue, think, see, find, be, journey · To what, where: journey, wonderful things, large beautiful world, John · 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 (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 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 journey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 continued | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 continued | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 things | det |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thought | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 large | punct |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 world | amod |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | conj |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 away | advmod |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 found | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 away | obl |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 ever | case |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 away | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 before | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 before | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 before | cop |
| 36 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 found | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | John | John's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | of all wonderful things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | should | John | all wonderful things not said here | the large beautiful world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | find | past | John | John | away property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | John | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | journey | John | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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