Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 85
He had travelled all over the world, and could describe almost everything.
Who acts: John · What happens: travell, describe · To what, where: world, everything
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 | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | aux |
| 3 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 world | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 describe | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 describe | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 describe | aux |
| 11 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 travelled | parataxis |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 everything | advmod |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 describe | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travell | past · perfect | John | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | could | everything | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=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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