Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 14

Now many went out into the wood for the sake of this splendid berth; but only one of them came back with some sort of explanation.

Who acts: many, one · What happens: go out, come back, sort · To what, where: wood, explanation

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, one), 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	3 went	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 sake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sake	det
10	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 berth	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 berth	det
13	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 berth	amod
14	berth	berth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sake	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 came	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 sort	case
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 explanation	case
27	explanation	explanation	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sort	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	many		the wood	now	for the sake of this splendid berth; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come back	past	one of persons				with some sort of explanation	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sort			explanation				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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