Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 53
It was not till he arrived at the glorious old town of Nuremberg that he gained the mastery over himself, and rested his weary feet; and here he remained.
Who acts: knapsack, steamer · What happens: not be, gain, rest, remain · To what, where: glorious old town, mastery, weary feet
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 (knapsack, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 9 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 town | amod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 town | amod |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Nuremberg | case |
| 13 | Nuremberg | Nuremberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 town | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 gained | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gained | nsubj |
| 16 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mastery | det |
| 18 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gained | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 himself | case |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 gained | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rested | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rested | cc |
| 23 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feet | amod |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rested | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 remained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 remained | cc |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 remained | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 remained | nsubj |
| 31 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | knapsack | the glorious old town of Nuremberg | arrive property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gain | past | steamer | the mastery | over steamer | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=Theme | |||
| 3 | rest | past | knapsack not said here | steamer's weary feet | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | steamer | here | vn exist-47.1 «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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