Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 61
They had already left more than half the journey behind them.
Who acts: homewards · What happens: leave · To what, where: journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (homewards), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 half | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 journey | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | homewards = homeward | half journey | behind journeys = journey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent journey=Theme behind they=Location |
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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