Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 19
But early in the morning of the third day, a man came with an organ and played one of the melodies of home; and after that Knud could remain there no longer, so he started again on his journey toward the north.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, play, remain, start, journey · To what, where: one, journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 5 morning | cc |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 organ | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 organ | det |
| 16 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 played | cc |
| 18 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 played | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 melodies | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 melodies | det |
| 22 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 melodies | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 remain | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 remain | cc |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 Knud | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Knud | det |
| 29 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 remain | obl |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 remain | aux |
| 31 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | conj |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 remain | advmod |
| 33 | no | no | ADV | _ | 34 longer | advmod |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 remain | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 started | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 started | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 started | nsubj |
| 38 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 started | advmod |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 journey | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 journey | nmod:poss |
| 42 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 started | obl |
| 43 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 45 north | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 north | det |
| 45 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 journey | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a man | day; morning | with a organ | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | past | a man not said here | one of the melodies of home | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | could | a man not said here | there | after that Knud | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 4 | start | past | man | man's journey toward the north | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | journey | man | toward the north | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent toward=obl |
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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