Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 4
During the first few days I went to live in the town, I felt low-spirited and solitary enough.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, live, feel · To what, where: town
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 (I), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 days | amod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 low | punct |
| 18 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 low | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 solitary | cc |
| 20 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 low | conj |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 solitary | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | the town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | I | low property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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