Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 61
"Then the saucepan went on with his story, and the end was as good as the beginning.
Who acts: saucepan, end · What happens: go on, be
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 (saucepan, end), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 saucepan | det |
| 4 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 story | nmod:poss |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 good | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 beginning | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beginning | det |
| 19 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 good | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | past | the saucepan | then | with commencement's story | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the end | as the beginning | good property | 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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