Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 102
They felt the want of a change of air, and consequently the young couple and their mother travelled to Italy.
Who acts: eyes, young couple, air · What happens: feel, travel, want, change · To what, where: want, Italy, change
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, young couple, air), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 want | det |
| 4 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 change | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 change | det |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 change | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 travelled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 travelled | cc |
| 12 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 15 couple | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 couple | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 couple | amod |
| 15 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 travelled | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mother | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 couple | conj |
| 19 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Italy | case |
| 21 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 travelled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | eyes = eye | the want of a change of air | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent want=Theme | ||||
| 2 | travel | past | the young couple and eyes's mother | Italy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to italy=Destination | ||||
| 3 | want | a change of air | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | change | air | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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