Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 29
And as the old grandfather's spirit followed the next hovering flame, he knew whither it would lead him.
Who acts: grandfather, spirit · What happens: follow, know, lead · To what, where: next hovering flame, grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, spirit), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grandfather | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grandfather | amod |
| 5 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 grandfather | case |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flame | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flame | amod |
| 11 | hovering | hovering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flame | compound |
| 12 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | parataxis |
| 16 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 lead | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lead | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lead | aux |
| 19 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lead | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the next hovering flame | as the old grandfather's spirit | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent flame=Theme as spirit=Value | ||||
| 2 | know | past | grandfather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lead | would | spirit | grandfather | whither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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