Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 62
He wanted to buy a gold ring for her in Kjoge, but then he recollected how far more beautiful such things would be in Copenhagen.
Who acts: nearer · What happens: want, buy, recollect, be · To what, where: gold ring, Kjoge, beautiful such things, Copenhagen
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 buy | mark |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | compound |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Kjoge | case |
| 11 | Kjoge | Kjoge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 buy | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 recollected | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 recollected | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 recollected | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 recollected | nsubj |
| 16 | recollected | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 recollected | obj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 Copenhagen | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 Copenhagen | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Copenhagen | case |
| 26 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 things | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | nearer = near | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | nearer = near not said here | a gold ring | Kjoge | for master | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ring=Theme for she=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | recollect | past | nearer = near | beautiful such things | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | would | Copenhagen | tree rules |
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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