Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 3
On his return, he went to visit one of the little towns in the island of Zealand.
Who acts: Alfred · What happens: go, visit, return · To what, where: return, one
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 (Alfred), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 visit | mark |
| 8 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 visit | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 towns | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 towns | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 towns | amod |
| 13 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 towns | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Zealand | case |
| 18 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 island | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Alfred | Alfred's return | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | Alfred not said here | one of the little towns in the island of Zealand | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | Alfred | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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