Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 5
I saw a caravan of emigrant peasant families who were bound to Hamburgh, there to take ship for America, where fancied prosperity would bloom for them.
Who acts: I, fancied prosperity · What happens: see, bind, take, fancy, bloom · To what, where: caravan, emigrant peasant families, Hamburgh, ship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fancied prosperity), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 caravan | det |
| 4 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 families | case |
| 6 | emigrant | emigrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 families | compound |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 families | amod |
| 8 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caravan | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bound | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bound | aux:pass |
| 11 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 families | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Hamburgh | case |
| 13 | Hamburgh | Hamburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 bound | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 take | expl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 America | case |
| 20 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bloom | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 bloom | advmod |
| 23 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 prosperity | amod |
| 24 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bloom | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bloom | aux |
| 26 | bloom | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 take | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bloom | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | a caravan of emigrant peasant families | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind | past · passive | emigrant peasant families | Hamburgh | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to hamburgh=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | ship | there | for America | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ship=Theme for america=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | fancy | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | bloom | would | fancied prosperity | for families = family | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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