Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 50
John gave him his silver shillings, and then he continued his journey, feeling lighter and happier than ever.
Who acts: John · What happens: give, continue, feel, journey · To what, where: silver shillings, grave, journey
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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shillings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shillings | amod |
| 6 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 continued | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 continued | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 continued | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeling | punct |
| 15 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 continued | advcl |
| 16 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 feeling | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 happier | cc |
| 18 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 lighter | conj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 ever | case |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 lighter | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | John | John's silver shillings | grave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shilling=Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | John | John's journey | then | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | gerund | John not said here | light property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | 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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