Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 20

He travelled for many days with hasty steps, as if he were trying to reach home before all whom he remembered should die; but he spoke to no one of this longing.

Who acts: man · What happens: travel, try, reach, remember, die, speak · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 steps	case
7	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steps	amod
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trying	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 trying	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 trying	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 trying	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 trying	aux
14	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reach	mark
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 trying	xcomp
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 reach	advmod
18	before	before	ADP	_	20 whom	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 whom	nsubj
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 reach	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remembered	nsubj
22	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 die	aux
24	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 remembered	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 spoke	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 spoke	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 spoke	nsubj
28	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 one	case
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoke	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 longing	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 longing	det
34	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	man		day	with hasty steps	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past · progressive	man				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remember	past	man				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	die	should	man not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	speak speech: other	past	man	no one of this longing			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent

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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