Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 32
He was going on a long journey over mountains and seas; it is easy for a man to lose his life in such a journey.
Who acts: elf · What happens: go, be, lose · To what, where: long journey, life, journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf), 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 | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 journey | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seas | cc |
| 11 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 mountains | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 easy | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 easy | expl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 easy | cop |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 going | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 easy | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lose | mark |
| 20 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 easy | csubj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lose | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 journey | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lose | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | elf | a long journey over mountains and seas | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | for a man; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | elf's life | such journey | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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