Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 51
But when spring returned, and the first steamer prepared to sail, Knud was seized with a longing to wander forth into the world, but not to France.
Who acts: spring · What happens: return, prepare, sail, seize, wander · To what, where: France, first steamer, world
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 (spring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seized | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steamer | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 steamer | amod |
| 9 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 steamer | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sail | mark |
| 12 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 prepared | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Knud | punct |
| 14 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 steamer | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | aux:pass |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 longing | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 longing | det |
| 19 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wander | mark |
| 21 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seized | advcl |
| 22 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 wander | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wander | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 France | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 France | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 France | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 France | case |
| 30 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | spring | France | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to france=Result | ||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | the first steamer Knud not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sail not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | seize | past · passive | the first steamer Knud | with a longing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wander | to-infinitive | the world | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination |
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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