Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 107
So the merchant's son could not fly any more, nor go to meet his bride.
Who acts: son · What happens: not fly, go, meet · To what, where: bride
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 (son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 fly | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fly | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fly | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fly | advmod |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 fly | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 go | cc |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fly | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 meet | mark |
| 15 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bride | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meet | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | could | the merchant's son | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the merchant's son not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the merchant's son not said here | son's bride | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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