Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 70

At the last moment, when the ship was sinking, the young mate wrote on a piece of paper, "We are going down: God's will be done."

Who acts: ship, young mate, We · What happens: sink, write, go down, do · To what, where: piece · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ship, young mate, We), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sinking	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sinking	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sinking	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sinking	aux
10	sinking	sink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 moment	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moment	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mate	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mate	amod
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	nsubj
15	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 piece	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wrote	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 paper	case
20	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
23	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 going	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 wrote	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 done	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 God	case
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 done	aux:pass
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wrote	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past · progressive	the ship				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	write	past	the young mate	a piece of paper	moment		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go down in a quote	present · progressive	We			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	do in a quote	future · passive	the young mate not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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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