Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 104

One day his master took him into the town; not to the circus in which riders performed, but to the opera, a large building, itself a sight well worth seeing.

Who acts: master, riders · What happens: take, perform, see · To what, where: Milan, town, circus

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, riders), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl:unmarked
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 master	nmod:poss
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 circus	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 circus	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 circus	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 circus	det
14	circus	circus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 performed	obl
17	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 performed	nsubj
18	performed	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 circus	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 opera	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 opera	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 opera	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 opera	det
23	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 building	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 building	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 building	amod
27	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 opera	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 itself	punct
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 took	obl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sight	det
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 worth	nsubj
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 worth	advmod
33	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 took	parataxis
34	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 worth	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	master's master	Milan	the town	day	to the circus; building obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into town=Destination
2	perform	past	riders		the circus			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	gerund	master's master not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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