Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 135
But he never returned; for by this time he had flown far away into the lovely green forest.
Who acts: wind · What happens: not return, fly · To what, where: time, lovely green forest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flown | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flown | aux |
| 12 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 flown | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 17 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 forest | amod |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flown | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | past | wind | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past · perfect | wind | this time not said here | the lovely green forest | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent time=Theme into forest=Trajectory |
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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