Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 52
So he packed his knapsack, and travelled through Germany, going from town to town, but finding neither rest or peace.
Who acts: steamer · What happens: pack, travel, go, find · To what, where: knapsack, Germany, town, rest
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 (steamer), 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 packed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 packed | nsubj |
| 3 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 packed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 travelled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 travelled | cc |
| 8 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 packed | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 Germany | case |
| 10 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 travelled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 travelled | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 town | case |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 finding | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 finding | cc |
| 19 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 packed | advcl |
| 20 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 rest | det |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finding | obj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 peace | cc |
| 23 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | past | steamer | steamer's knapsack | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | steamer not said here | Germany | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through germany=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | steamer not said here | town | to town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location to town=Destination | |||
| 4 | find | gerund | steamer not said here | neither rest or peace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
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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