Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 10

Then, as it was Sunday morning and the weather very fine, he said to himself, "A walk to Fredericksburg will do me good:" so away he went.

Who acts: arm, pair, walk · What happens: be, say, do, go · To what, where: pair, good · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, pair, walk), 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	15 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 morning	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 morning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 morning	cop
6	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 morning	compound
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 weather	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weather	det
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 walk	punct
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 walk	det
21	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Fredericksburg	case
23	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 walk	nmod
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 do	iobj
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 do	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 went	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 away	advmod
31	away	away	ADV	_	33 went	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	arm			as Sunday morning and the weather		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	pair		pair	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	do in a quote	future	a walk to Fredericksburg	good	pair			tree rules
4	go	past	pair				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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