Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 50
His fellow-traveller also tried to persuade him against it; but John seemed quite sure of success.
Who acts: fellow traveller, John · What happens: try, persuade, seem · To what, where: face
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 (fellow traveller, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 traveller | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 traveller | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fellow | punct |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 tried | advmod |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 persuade | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 persuade | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seemed | cc |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 sure | advmod |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 success | case |
| 19 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sure | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | face's fellow traveller | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | face's fellow traveller not said here | face | against visit | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | seem | past | John | sure property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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