Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 136

Sometime after, when his father died, he was in foreign lands, and did not come home.

Who acts: father, student · What happens: die, be, not come · To what, where: foreign lands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, student), 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	Sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 died	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 died	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 died	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lands	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lands	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 lands	case
12	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lands	amod
13	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 died	conj
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	student's father		sometime property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	student	foreign lands		tree rules
3	not come	past · do-support	student's father not said here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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