Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 93
He has gone away and left his wife a burden upon our hands."
Who acts: fellow · What happens: go away, leave · To what, where: wife
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 (fellow), 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 | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 gone | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 burden | det |
| 10 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | present · perfect | fellow | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | fellow not said here | fellow's wife | upon our hands | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wife=Theme burden=Attribute |
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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