Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 20
But the boat was not fastened, and the motion which she occasioned, made it drift from the shore.
Who acts: motion, boat · What happens: not fasten, occasion, make, drift · To what, where: boat, shore
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motion, boat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 fastened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fastened | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fastened | advmod |
| 6 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 motion | det |
| 10 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 occasioned | nsubj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 occasioned | nsubj |
| 13 | occasioned | occasion | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 motion | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 occasioned | punct |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fastened | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | drift | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shore | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shore | det |
| 20 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drift | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fasten | past · passive | the boat | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | occasion | past | the motion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the motion | boat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drift | infinitive | boat not said here | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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