Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 44

As the people went in, John followed them; he heard God's word, joined in singing the psalms, and listened to the preacher.

Who acts: people, John, God · What happens: go in, follow, hear, join, sing, listen · To what, where: people, word, 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 (people, John, God), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 people	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 followed	punct
7	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 followed	nsubj
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 followed	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
13	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 word	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 God	case
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 joined	punct
17	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 word	acl
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 singing	mark
19	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 joined	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 psalms	det
21	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 singing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 listened	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 listened	cc
24	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 preacher	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 preacher	det
27	preacher	preacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 listened	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in	past	the people			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	past	John	people		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	hear	past	John	God's word		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	join	participle		God's word not said here		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	sing speech: express	gerund		the psalms		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location psalm=Theme
6	listen	past	John not said here		to the preacher	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to preacher=Theme
7	word		God			nom word «communication 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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