Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 18
As soon as Sunday arrived, he went again, and felt as if he were about to enter on holy ground.
Who acts: Sunday, Knud · What happens: arrive, go, feel, be, enter · To what, where: holy ground
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 (Sunday, Knud), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 felt | cc |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 about | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 about | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 about | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 about | cop |
| 17 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 felt | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 enter | mark |
| 19 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 about | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ground | amod |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 enter | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Sunday | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Knud | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Sunday not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Knud | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | Knud not said here | holy ground | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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