Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 72

He had just to return the way he came, through St. Maurice and Sion, to his home in the valley.

Who acts: Rudy · What happens: have, return, come · To what, where: way, Maurice

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 (Rudy), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 return	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 return	mark
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Maurice	punct
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 Maurice	case
12	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Maurice	nmod:desc
13	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Sion	cc
15	Sion	Sion	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Maurice	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 home	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 home	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 home	nmod:poss
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 valley	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 valley	det
22	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 home	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Rudy				tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here	the way	Maurice St. and Sion	to Rudy's home in the valley	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to home=Destination
3	come	past	Rudy	the way not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=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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