Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 173

He wandered on till he found himself in a poor street of the suburb called Christian's Haven.

Who acts: Ib · What happens: wander, find, call · To what, where: Ib, poor street, suburb · Speech: someone speaks here

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wandered	nsubj
2	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 wandered	obl
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 found	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wandered	advcl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 street	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 street	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 street	amod
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 suburb	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 suburb	det
14	suburb	suburb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 street	nmod
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 suburb	acl
16	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Haven	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Christian	case
18	Haven	Haven	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wander	past	Ib			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past	Ib	Ib	a poor street of the suburb	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	call	participle		the suburb not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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