Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 129
During the night, down yonder by Lokken, the little fishing village with the red-tiled roofs--we can see it up here from the window--a ship has come ashore.
Who acts: we, ship · What happens: tile, see up, come · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, ship), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lokken | punct |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 yonder | advmod |
| 6 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 Lokken | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Lokken | case |
| 8 | Lokken | Lokken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 village | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 village | amod |
| 12 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 village | compound |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Lokken | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 roofs | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roofs | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tiled | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 red | punct |
| 18 | tiled | tile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 roofs | amod |
| 19 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 village | nmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 see | compound:prt |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 see | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 window | det |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 here | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 ship | det |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 come | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | aux |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 see | parataxis |
| 35 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 34 come | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tile | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see up | can | we | village | here | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | a ship | ashore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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