Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 47
Then the king, in his melancholy, wandered out to the spot in the wood. "
Who acts: king · What happens: wander out · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 9 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 melancholy | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 melancholy | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 melancholy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 wandered | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wandered | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander out | past | the king and king's melancholy | the wood | then | to the spot; out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination |
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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