Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 56
The bridge leading to Palace Square was not to be found; scarcely trusting his senses, the nocturnal wanderer discovered a shallow piece of water, and here fell in with two men who very comfortably were rocking to and fro in a boat.
Who acts: bridge, nocturnal wanderer, two men · What happens: lead, not find, trust, discover, fall in, rock · To what, where: Palace Square, bridge, senses, shallow piece, boat
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, nocturnal wanderer, two men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bridge | det |
| 2 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 bridge | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Square | case |
| 5 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Square | compound |
| 6 | Square | Square | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 leading | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 found | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 trusting | punct |
| 13 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 14 trusting | advmod |
| 14 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 found | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 senses | nmod:poss |
| 16 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 trusting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 discovered | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wanderer | det |
| 19 | nocturnal | nocturnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wanderer | amod |
| 20 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 discovered | nsubj |
| 21 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 trusting | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 piece | det |
| 23 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 piece | amod |
| 24 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 discovered | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 piece | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 29 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 fell | advmod |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 discovered | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADV | _ | 30 fell | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 men | case |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 men | nummod |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fell | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 rocking | nsubj |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 comfortably | advmod |
| 37 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 39 rocking | advmod |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 rocking | aux |
| 39 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 men | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 rocking | fixed |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 fro | cc |
| 42 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 rocking | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 boat | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 boat | det |
| 45 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fro | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | the bridge not said here | Palace Square | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to square=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · passive | the bridge | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | trust | gerund | the bridge not said here | Square's senses | scarcely property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Theme | |||
| 4 | discover | past | the nocturnal wanderer | a shallow piece of water | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fall in | past | the nocturnal wanderer not said here | here | with two men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | rock | past · progressive | two men | comfortably property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fro | infinitive | two men not said here | a boat | tree rules |
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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