Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 172
On the evening before the day he had settled to return with the captain of the passage-boat, Ib lost himself in the streets, and took quite a different turning to the one he wished to follow.
Who acts: Ib · What happens: settle, return, lose, take, turn, wish · To what, where: Ib, streets, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settled | obl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 settled | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 settled | aux |
| 9 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 return | mark |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 settled | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 captain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 captain | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boat | det |
| 17 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boat | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 passage | punct |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 captain | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lost | punct |
| 21 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 settled | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 lost | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 streets | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 streets | det |
| 26 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lost | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 took | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 settled | conj |
| 30 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 different | det:predet |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 different | det |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 took | xcomp |
| 33 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 different | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 one | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turning | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wished | nsubj |
| 38 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 one | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 follow | mark |
| 40 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wished | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | past · perfect | Ib | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | with the captain of the passage boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | Ib | Ib | the streets | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | take | past | Ib not said here | different property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | turn | gerund | Ib not said here | the one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to one=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | wish | past | Ib | the one not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ib not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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