Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 65
On the following Sunday he intended to pay his first visit to Joanna's father.
Who acts: nearer · What happens: follow, intend, pay, visit · To what, where: first visit
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Sunday | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sunday | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Sunday | amod |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 intended | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 intended | nsubj |
| 6 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intended | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 visit | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 visit | amod |
| 11 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 13 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Joanna | case |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | intend | past | nearer = near | sunday | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | nearer = near not said here | nearer's first visit | to Joanna's father | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 4 | visit | nearer = near | nom visit «act transitive»: 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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