Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 24
And the man went and opened one of the newest books, to gain information on this point; but there was no flower to be found.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, open, gain, be, find · To what, where: one, information, point, flower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 opened | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 books | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 books | det |
| 10 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 books | amod |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gain | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 gain | mark |
| 14 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 opened | parataxis |
| 15 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gain | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 point | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 point | det |
| 18 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 information | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 flower | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 was | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flower | cop |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 flower | det |
| 24 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 found | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 found | aux:pass |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 flower | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the man not said here | one of the newest books | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gain | to-infinitive | information | this point | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent information=Theme on point=Source | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | no flower | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive · passive | the man not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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