Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 62
He next sought and found a good master in Nuremberg, with whom he stayed and learnt the German language.
Who acts: Knud · What happens: seek, find, stay, learn · To what, where: good master, Nuremberg, German language
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 sought | advmod |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sought | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Nuremberg | case |
| 10 | Nuremberg | Nuremberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 master | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 found | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 learnt | cc |
| 17 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 language | det |
| 19 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 language | amod |
| 20 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learnt | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Knud | next property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Knud not said here | a good master | Nuremberg | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||
| 3 | stay | past | Knud | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn | past | Knud not said here | the German language | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=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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