Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 29
And the Flea went into foreign military service, where it is said he was killed.
Who acts: Flea · What happens: go, say, kill · To what, where: foreign military service, body, councillor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flea), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Flea | det |
| 3 | Flea | Flea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 service | amod |
| 7 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 service | amod |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 said | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux:pass |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Flea | foreign military service | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | body | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | councillor | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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