Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 17
I have followed his injunction for many evenings.
Who acts: MOON · What happens: follow, enjoin · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MOON), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | aux |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 injunction | nmod:poss |
| 5 | injunction | injunction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 evenings | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 evenings | amod |
| 8 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · perfect · passive | I | evening | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme injunction=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | enjoin | MOON | nom injunction «communication transitive»: poss=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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