Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 36
He did not even know the names of the places he passed through, and could scarcely understand the language of the people he met, for he was far away, in a strange land.
Who acts: John · What happens: not know, pass through, understand, meet, be, name · To what, where: names, places, language, strange land, people
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 names | det |
| 7 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 places | det |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 names | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 places | acl:relcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 understand | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 understand | cc |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 understand | aux |
| 17 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 18 understand | advmod |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 language | det |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 understand | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 language | nmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 met | nsubj |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 people | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 away | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 away | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 away | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 away | cop |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 away | advmod |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 understand | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 land | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 land | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 land | det |
| 35 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 land | amod |
| 36 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 understand | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | John | the names of the places | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pass through | past | John | the places not said here | through property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | understand | could | the language of the people | a strange land | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | meet | past | John | the people not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | John | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | the places | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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