Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 147
The miller talked of the long journey they had travelled, and of the many towns they had seen.
Who acts: miller, people · What happens: talk, travell, see · To what, where: long journey
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miller | det |
| 2 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talked | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 travelled | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 travelled | aux |
| 10 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 journey | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seen | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 towns | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 towns | det |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 towns | amod |
| 16 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seen | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 talked | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the miller | of the long journey | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | travell | past · perfect | people | the long journey not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | people | of the many towns | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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