Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 30

That evening John said his prayers and went to bed very early, and soon fell asleep calmly.

Who acts: evening, John · What happens: say, go, fall, pray · To what, where: prayers, bed · 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 (evening, 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prayers	nmod:poss
6	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 early	advmod
12	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 went	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 fell	advmod
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	xcomp
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	that evening	John's prayers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
2	go	past	that evening not said here		bed	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	fall	past	that evening not said here			asleep, calmly, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pray		John				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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