Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 9

When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a stranger often comes to the church, and visits the burial vault; he asks the names of the kings, and they have a dead and forgotten sound.

Who acts: steamboat, stranger, names · What happens: wind, come, visit, ask, have, forget · To what, where: church, burial vault, names, dead sound, kings

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steamboat, stranger, names), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 winds	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steamboat	det
3	steamboat	steamboat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 winds	nsubj
4	winds	wind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 visits	advcl
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 winds	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 snail	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snail	det
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 snail	compound
9	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 winds	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 lakes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lakes	det
12	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snail	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	nsubj
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 comes	advmod
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 winds	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 church	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 church	det
20	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 comes	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 visits	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 visits	cc
23	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 vault	det
25	burial	burial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 vault	amod
26	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 visits	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 asks	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 asks	nsubj
29	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 visits	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 names	det
31	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 asks	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 kings	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kings	det
34	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 names	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 asks	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 sound	det
40	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 sound	amod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 forgotten	cc
42	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 dead	conj
43	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 visits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wind	present	the steamboat			like a magic snail over the lakes; along property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	a stranger		the church	often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
3	visit	present		the burial vault			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Co-Agent
4	ask speech: ask	present	stranger	the names of the kings			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
5	have	present	names = name	a dead sound			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
6	forget	participle	names = name not said here				tree rules
7	name			the kings			nom name «communication 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: «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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