Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 80
As John left the wood, a strong man's voice called after him, "Hallo, comrade, where are you travelling?"
Who acts: John, Hallo · What happens: leave, call, travel · To what, where: wood, voice · 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, Hallo), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 left | mark |
| 2 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 travelling | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 voice | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 man | case |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wood | conj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 voice | acl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hallo | punct |
| 17 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 travelling | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comrade | punct |
| 19 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Hallo | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 travelling | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 travelling | advmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 travelling | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 travelling | nsubj |
| 24 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 travelling | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | John | the wood and a strong man's voice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: ask | participle | a strong man's voice not said here | after John | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | present · progressive | Hallo and comrade | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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