Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 68
So Knud left his master, and went to work for another who lived farther in the town, where no elder grew.
Who acts: Knud, elder · What happens: leave, go, work, live, grow · To what, where: master, town
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, elder), 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 left | advmod |
| 2 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | 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 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 work | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 another | acl:relcl |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 lived | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 grew | advmod |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 elder | det |
| 22 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 town | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Knud | Knud's master | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Knud not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | Knud not said here | for another | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for another=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | live | past | the town | far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | no elder | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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