Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 121
Now he was a sailor, and had to sail away.
Who acts: beetle · What happens: be, have, sail away · To what, where: sailor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beetle), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sailor | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sailor | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailor | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sailor | det |
| 5 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailor | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sail | mark |
| 10 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sail | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | beetle | a sailor | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | beetle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sail away | to-infinitive | beetle not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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