Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 60
A master was expecting him there, and he thought of Joanna, and how glad she would be to see him.
Who acts: master, nearer · What happens: expect, think, be, see · To what, where: nearer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, nearer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expecting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expecting | aux |
| 4 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 expecting | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 expecting | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expecting | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Joanna | case |
| 12 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glad | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 glad | advmod |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 glad | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 be | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · progressive | a master | nearer = near | there | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | nearer = near | of Joanna | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | would | master | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | master not said here | nearer = near | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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