Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 63
It was taken on board (for Peter Jensen was one of the crew) the very same ship in which the young mate was to sail.
Who acts: Peter, young mate · What happens: take, be · To what, where: It, board, same 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 (Peter, young mate), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 board | case |
| 5 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nsubj |
| 9 | Jensen | Jensen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Peter | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 taken | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 crew | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crew | det |
| 14 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 same | advmod |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ship | amod |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sail | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mate | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mate | amod |
| 24 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sail | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sail | cop |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sail | mark |
| 27 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ship | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | It | board | the same ship obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on board=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | Peter | for one; of the crew | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the young mate | the same ship | sail property | tree rules |
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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