Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 96

But no one could tell whither it went then although some declared it flew straight to the sun.

Who acts: one, bird, some · What happens: tell, go, declare, fly · To what, where: sun. · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, bird, some), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	8 went	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	advcl
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 went	advmod
10	although	although	SCONJ	_	12 declared	mark
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 declared	nsubj
12	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 sun.	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sun.	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun.	det
18	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	no one				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	bird		then	whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	declare speech: other	past	some				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	fly	past	bird	the sun.			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun.=Theme

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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