Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 46
Yonder in the canal lay the ships frozen up, and deserted by their whole crews, with a screaming crow for the sole occupant.
What happens: lie, freeze up, desert, scream · To what, where: ships, canal
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 canal | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 canal | det |
| 4 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ships | det |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ships | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 frozen | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 deserted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deserted | cc |
| 12 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lay | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 crews | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 crews | nmod:poss |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crews | amod |
| 16 | crews | crew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 deserted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crow | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 crow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crow | det |
| 20 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 crow | amod |
| 21 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deserted | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 occupant | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 occupant | det |
| 24 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 occupant | amod |
| 25 | occupant | occupant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crow | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the ships | the canal | yonder property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ship=Theme | |||
| 2 | freeze up | participle | the ships not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | desert | participle | by ships's whole crews; with a screaming crow for the sole occupant | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | scream speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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