Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 24
John and his companion would not go into the town immediately; so they stopped at an inn outside the town, to change their clothes; for they wished to appear respectable as they walked through the streets.
Who acts: John, towns · What happens: not go, stop, change, wish, appear, walk · To what, where: town, inn, clothes, streets
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 (John, towns), 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 | 7 go | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 companion | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 John | conj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stopped | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 inn | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 inn | det |
| 18 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stopped | obl |
| 19 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inn | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 change | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 change | mark |
| 24 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 change | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 wished | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 wished | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 wished | nsubj |
| 30 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 appear | mark |
| 32 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wished | xcomp |
| 33 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 appear | xcomp |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 walked | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 walked | nsubj |
| 36 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 wished | advcl |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 streets | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 streets | det |
| 39 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 walked | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | would | John and John's companion | the town | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stop | past | towns = town | a inn outside the town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | towns = town not said here | towns's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | towns = town | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | appear not said to happen | to-infinitive | towns = town not said here | respectable property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | walk | past | towns = town | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
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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