Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 12
Then he explained to Vesinaud and Ragli what he wished to do, and why.
Who acts: Vesinaud · What happens: explain, wish, do · To what, where: Vesinaud
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vesinaud), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 explained | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 explained | nsubj |
| 3 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Vesinaud | case |
| 5 | Vesinaud | Vesinaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 explained | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Ragli | cc |
| 7 | Ragli | Ragli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vesinaud | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 explained | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 why | cc |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 explained | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Vesinaud | Vesinaud and Ragli | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to vesinaud=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Vesinaud | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vesinaud not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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