Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 10
The next morning John and his companion left the inn to continue their journey through the great pine-forests and over the high mountains.
Who acts: next morning, tongs · What happens: leave, continue, journey · To what, where: inn, journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next morning, tongs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 4 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companion | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 John | conj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inn | det |
| 10 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 continue | mark |
| 12 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 left | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 journey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continue | obj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 forests | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forests | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forests | amod |
| 18 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 forests | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pine | punct |
| 20 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 continue | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mountains | cc |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountains | det |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mountains | amod |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forests | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the next morning | the inn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | to-infinitive | the next morning not said here | tongs's journey | through the great pine forests and the high mountains | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme through forest=Instrument | |||
| 3 | journey | tongs = tong | 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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