Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 28
She then came to a large lake, where there was neither ship nor boat.
Who acts: woman · What happens: come · To what, where: large lake
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lake | amod |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lake | acl:relcl |
| 12 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 ship | cc:preconj |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lake | nmod |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 boat | cc |
| 15 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | woman | a large lake ship nor boat | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location |
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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