Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 35

"'But soon I had to sail about somewhere else, and for many years I was travelling about far away from home.'

Who acts: mother · What happens: have, sail, travel

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 (mother), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 had	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sail	mark
8	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 somewhere	case
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 sail	advmod
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 somewhere	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 travelling	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 travelling	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 travelling	obl
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 travelling	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 travelling	aux
19	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 had	advcl
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 travelling	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 home	case
24	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 away	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	mother		soon property	tree rules
2	sail in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here		somewhere property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	travel in a quote	past · progressive	mother	year	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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