Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 104
After this he went back to the forest to rest himself in his trunk.
Who acts: angel · What happens: go back, rest · To what, where: angel, trunk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 rest | mark |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 rest | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trunk | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | angel | after this | to the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | |||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | angel not said here | angel | angel's trunk | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in trunk=Location |
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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