Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 23

While John slept, his companion flew behind the princess to the mountain, and flogged her even harder than before; this time he had taken two rods with him.

Who acts: John, companion · What happens: sleep, fly, flog, take · To what, where: two rods

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 (John, companion), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 slept	mark
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 slept	nsubj
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 slept	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 companion	nmod:poss
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 princess	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 flogged	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 flogged	cc
16	flogged	flog	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 harder	nmod:poss
18	even	even	ADV	_	19 harder	advmod
19	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 flogged	ccomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 before	case
21	before	before	ADV	_	19 harder	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 taken	punct
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taken	obl:unmarked
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taken	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 taken	aux
27	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 flew	conj
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 rods	nummod
29	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 taken	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 taken	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	John				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	John's companion			behind the princess to the mountain	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind princess=Location
3	flog	past	John's companion not said here				vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	take	past · perfect	John	two rods	time	with traveller	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=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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