Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 5

By the next morning he had to learn by heart all the towns in Zealand, and all that could be described of them.

Who acts: boy · What happens: have, learn, describe · To what, where: towns, Zealand, that

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 learn	mark
8	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 heart	case
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 learn	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 towns	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 towns	det
13	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 learn	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Zealand	case
15	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 towns	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 described	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 described	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 described	det:predet
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 described	nsubj:pass
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 described	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 described	aux:pass
22	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 described	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy			morning		tree rules
2	learn	to-infinitive	boy not said here	all towns	Zealand		by heart	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Topic
3	describe	could · passive		that			of towns = town	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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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