Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 17
Had his thoughts ventured to fly with the ships of the barbarians, to their homes in far distant England?
Who acts: thoughts, occupation · What happens: venture, fly, think
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, occupation), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ventured | aux |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ventured | nsubj |
| 4 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fly | mark |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ventured | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 ships | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ships | det |
| 9 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 barbarians | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 barbarians | det |
| 12 | barbarians | barbarian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ships | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 homes | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 homes | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 homes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fly | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 England | case |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 distant | advmod |
| 19 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 England | amod |
| 20 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 homes | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ventured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | past | occupation's thoughts | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | occupation's thoughts not said here | with the ships of the barbarians; to barbarians's homes in distant England result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | think | occupation | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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: «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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