Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 77
Some wretched hovels for the Dutch sailors, resembling great boxes, and after which the place was named, lay about in confused disorder on the opposite bank.
Who acts: Dutch sailors · What happens: resemble, name, lay about · To what, where: great boxes, place, confused disorder
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 (Dutch sailors), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hovels | det |
| 2 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hovels | amod |
| 3 | hovels | hovel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sailors | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sailors | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sailors | det |
| 6 | Dutch | dutch | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sailors | amod |
| 7 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resembling | punct |
| 9 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sailors | acl |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boxes | amod |
| 11 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 resembling | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 named | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 named | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 named | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 named | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 named | aux:pass |
| 19 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sailors | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sailors | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 lay | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 disorder | case |
| 24 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 disorder | amod |
| 25 | disorder | disorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bank | det |
| 28 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bank | amod |
| 29 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sailors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | gerund | the Dutch sailors not said here | great boxes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | past · passive | the place | after the Dutch sailors | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay about | present | confused disorder | on the opposite bank; about property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in disorder=Destination |
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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