Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 9
Then Knud went home and packed up his knapsack; he felt he must return to the home of his childhood, to the elder-tree and the willow. "
Who acts: Knud · What happens: go, pack up, feel, return · To what, where: knapsack, home
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 packed | cc |
| 6 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 packed | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 packed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 felt | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 return | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 return | aux |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 felt | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 childhood | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 21 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 home | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tree | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tree | det |
| 25 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 elder | punct |
| 27 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 return | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 willow | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 willow | det |
| 30 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tree | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Knud | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pack up | participle | Knud not said here | Knud's knapsack | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Knud | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | must | Knud | the home of Knud's childhood | to the elder tree and the willow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location to tree=Destination |
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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