Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 76

He longed for the next day so much, that he might go to the palace and try his luck at guessing the riddles.

Who acts: John · What happens: long, go, try, guess · To what, where: palace, luck, riddles

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), 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	2 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 longed	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	2 longed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 try	cc
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 luck	nmod:poss
20	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 try	obj
21	at	at	SCONJ	_	22 guessing	mark
22	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 try	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 riddles	det
24	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 guessing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	long	past	John			day	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	go	might	John		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	try	infinitive	John not said here	John's luck			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
4	guess	gerund	John not said here	the riddles			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=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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