Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 87
No ferry-boat can sail over the bay in such weather as this.
Who acts: ferry boat · What happens: sail · To what, where: bay
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 (ferry boat), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 boat | det |
| 2 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boat | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ferry | punct |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sail | aux |
| 6 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 bay | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bay | det |
| 9 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 weather | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 weather | amod |
| 12 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | obl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sail | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | can | no ferry boat | the bay | in such weather; as this | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bay=Trajectory |
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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