Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 47
But when the spring, with a gentle stirring motion, announced her arrival, a new and busy life arose; with songs and hurrahs the ice was sawn asunder, the ships were fresh tarred and rigged, that they might sail away to distant lands.
Who acts: spring, new life, ships, crow · What happens: announce, arise, hurrah, sawn, be, tar · To what, where: arrival, ice, distant lands
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: who acts (spring, new life, ships, crow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 announced | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 announced | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 motion | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 motion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 motion | det |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 motion | amod |
| 9 | stirring | stirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 motion | compound |
| 10 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spring | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 motion | punct |
| 12 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arose | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 life | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 busy | cc |
| 19 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 new | conj |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arose | nsubj |
| 21 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 announced | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 songs | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 songs | case |
| 24 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arose | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurrahs | cc |
| 26 | hurrahs | hurrah | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 arose | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ice | det |
| 28 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sawn | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sawn | aux:pass |
| 30 | sawn | sawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hurrahs | ccomp |
| 31 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sawn | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fresh | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ships | det |
| 34 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 fresh | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fresh | cop |
| 36 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 sawn | parataxis |
| 37 | tarred | tar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 fresh | csubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 rigged | cc |
| 39 | rigged | rig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 tarred | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sail | punct |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 sail | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sail | nsubj |
| 43 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 sail | aux |
| 44 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 tarred | advcl |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 sail | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 lands | case |
| 47 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 lands | amod |
| 48 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sail | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | the spring | crow's arrival | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | a new life | with songs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurrah | present | a new life not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sawn | past · passive | the ice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the ships | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tar | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | rig | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | sail away | might | ships = ship | distant lands | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to land=Trajectory | |||
| 9 | arrive | crow | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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