Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 29
Then he flew away to the town and bought a new dressing-gown, and afterwards returned to the wood, where he composed a story, so as to be ready for Saturday, which was no easy matter.
Who acts: father, Saturday · What happens: fly away, buy, return, compose, be · To what, where: new dressing gown, story, easy matter
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 (father, Saturday), 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 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bought | cc |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 gown | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gown | amod |
| 12 | dressing | dressing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gown | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 dressing | punct |
| 14 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 returned | advmod |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 composed | punct |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 composed | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 composed | nsubj |
| 25 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wood | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 composed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ready | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 ready | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 ready | mark |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 ready | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ready | cop |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 Saturday | case |
| 35 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ready | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 matter | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 matter | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 matter | cop |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 matter | det |
| 40 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 matter | amod |
| 41 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Saturday | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | father | then | to the town result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | |||
| 2 | buy | past | father not said here | a new dressing gown | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | father not said here | to the wood result; afterwards property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wood=Result | ||||
| 4 | compose | past | father | a story | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | father not said here | saturday | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a | past | Saturday | no easy matter | tree rules |
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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