Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 12

They could see for miles round, far away to places they had never visited, and John saw more of the beautiful world than he had ever known before.

Who acts: steeples, places, John · What happens: see, not visit, know · To what, where: steeples, more, John

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 (steeples, places, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 miles	case
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obl
6	round	round	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 places	case
11	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 away	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 visited	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 visited	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 visited	advmod
15	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 places	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
18	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 saw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 world	amod
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
25	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 known	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 known	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 known	aux
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 known	advmod
29	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 saw	advcl
30	before	before	ADV	_	29 known	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	could	steeples = steeple			for miles; away, round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not visit	past · perfect · passive	places not said here	steeples = steeple			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
3	see	past	John	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
4	know	past · perfect · passive		John	ever	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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