Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 18

He had a very long way to go, and had to pass through a dark, gloomy forest.

Who acts: Claus · What happens: have, go, pass · To what, where: long way, dark gloomy forest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Claus), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pass	mark
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	through	through	ADP	_	19 forest	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 forest	det
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forest	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dark	punct
18	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forest	amod
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Claus	a long way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	go	to-infinitive	Claus not said here	a long way not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Claus not said here			tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	Claus not said here		a dark gloomy forest	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location

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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