Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 63
So he took leave of his parents, and on a rainy day, late in the autumn, wandered forth on foot from the town of his birth.
Who acts: nearer · What happens: take, wander · To what, where: leave, foot
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 leave | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wandered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wandered | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wandered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 late | punct |
| 15 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 autumn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 autumn | det |
| 18 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 late | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 20 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 wandered | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wandered | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wandered | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 birth | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 birth | nmod:poss |
| 29 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 town | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | nearer = near | leave of nearer's parents | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | nearer = near not said here | foot | day | from the town of nearer's birth; forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
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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