Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 20
His fellow-traveller was glad also, when he heard how successful John had been.
Who acts: fellow traveller, traveller · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: successful John · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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, traveller), 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 glad | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | cop |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 heard | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | parataxis |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 successful | advmod |
| 13 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 John | amod |
| 14 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 been | aux |
| 16 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's fellow traveller | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | traveller | successful John | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past · perfect | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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