Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 36
He had lately passed his examination with honor, as mate, and the next morning he was to sail in his ship to a distant coast.
Who acts: wax · What happens: pass, be, examine · To what, where: wax, ship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wax), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 3 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 examination | nmod:poss |
| 6 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 honor | case |
| 8 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 examination | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 mate | case |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sail | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sail | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 morning | amod |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sail | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sail | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sail | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sail | mark |
| 20 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ship | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ship | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sail | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 coast | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coast | det |
| 26 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 coast | amod |
| 27 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sail | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | wax | mate vocative; lately property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient examination=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wax | wax's ship | morning | to a distant coast; sail property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | examine | wax | with honor | nom examination «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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