Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 93
As to ourselves, we all know the speed produced by the employment of steam; we have experienced it either on railroads, or in boats when crossing the sea; but such a flight is like the travelling of a sloth in comparison with the velocity with which light moves.
Who acts: we, flight, light · What happens: know, produce, experience, cross, be, move · To what, where: speed, railroads, sea, steam
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (we, flight, light), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 ourselves | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 know | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ourselves | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 speed | det |
| 9 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 10 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 speed | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 employment | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 employment | det |
| 13 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 produced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 steam | case |
| 15 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 employment | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 experienced | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 experienced | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 experienced | aux |
| 19 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 know | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 experienced | obj |
| 21 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 experienced | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 railroads | case |
| 23 | railroads | railroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 experienced | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boats | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 boats | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 boats | case |
| 27 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 experienced | obl |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 crossing | advmod |
| 29 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 experienced | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 crossing | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 travelling | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 travelling | cc |
| 34 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 flight | det:predet |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 flight | det |
| 36 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 travelling | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 travelling | cop |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 travelling | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 travelling | det |
| 40 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 sloth | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 sloth | det |
| 43 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 travelling | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 comparison | case |
| 45 | comparison | comparison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sloth | nmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 velocity | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 velocity | det |
| 48 | velocity | velocity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 comparison | nmod |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 which | case |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 moves | obl |
| 51 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 moves | nsubj |
| 52 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 velocity | acl:relcl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | we | the speed | as ourselves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speed=Stimulus as ourselves=Attribute | |||
| 2 | produce | participle | the speed not said here | by the employment of steam | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | experience | present · perfect | we | speed | railroads | in boats; either property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | cross | gerund | we not said here | the sea | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | present | such flight | like the travelling; of a sloth in comparison with the velocity | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | move | present | light | with the velocity | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | employ | steam | nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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