Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 104

The boy became a youth; he was to go out into the wide world, far away to the countries where the coffee grows.

Who acts: boy, coffee · What happens: become, be, grow · To what, where: youth, wide world

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, coffee), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 became	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 became	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
14	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 world	amod
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 away	punct
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 away	advmod
18	away	away	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 countries	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 countries	det
21	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 away	obl
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 grows	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 coffee	det
24	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 countries	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	the boy	a youth			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	boy		the wide world	away, go, out property	tree rules
3	grow	present	the coffee				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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