Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 31
But his companion tied on his wings to his shoulders, took three rods, and, with his sword at his side, flew to the palace.
Who acts: companion · What happens: tie, take, fly · To what, where: companion, three 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 companion | nmod:poss |
| 3 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 4 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 companion | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tied | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shoulders | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wings | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 companion | punct |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 rods | nummod |
| 14 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sword | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sword | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sword | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sword | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sword | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flew | punct |
| 25 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 flew | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | John's companion not said here | on John's wings to John's shoulders | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on wing=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | John's companion | three rods | with John's sword at John's side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | past | John's companion not said here | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result |
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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