Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 76
It outlived the storms and the calm, it struck against no rocks, was not devoured by sharks, but drifted on for more than a year, sometimes towards the north, sometimes towards the south, just as the current carried it.
Who acts: sun, sharks, current · What happens: outlive, strike, not devour, drift on, carry · To what, where: storms, rocks, north, sun
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 (sun, sharks, current), 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 | 2 outlived | nsubj |
| 2 | outlived | outlive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storms | det |
| 4 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 outlived | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 calm | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 calm | det |
| 7 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 storms | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 outlived | conj |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 rocks | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 rocks | det |
| 13 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 struck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 devoured | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 devoured | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 devoured | advmod |
| 17 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 struck | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sharks | case |
| 19 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 devoured | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drifted | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 drifted | cc |
| 22 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 outlived | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 drifted | compound:prt |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 28 year | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drifted | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 north | punct |
| 30 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 north | advmod |
| 31 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 33 north | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 north | det |
| 33 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drifted | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 south | punct |
| 35 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 south | advmod |
| 36 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 38 south | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 south | det |
| 38 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drifted | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 carried | punct |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 44 carried | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 carried | mark |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 current | det |
| 43 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 carried | nsubj |
| 44 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 outlived | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 carried | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 outlived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outlive | past | sun | the storms | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | sun | no rocks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | not devour | past · passive | sharks | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drift on | participle | sun not said here | the north | year | towards the south | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards north=Source towards south=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | carry | past | the current | sun | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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