Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 50
Late in the evening he returned home with the fatal news,--to that home which was now to be so full of sorrow.
Who acts: Rudy, home · What happens: return, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, home), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 news | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 10 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 news | amod |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 home | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 home | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 home | det |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 news | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 full | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 full | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 full | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 full | advmod |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 home | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sorrow | case |
| 25 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Rudy | evening | with the fatal news to that home; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | that home | now | of sorrow; full property | tree rules |
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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