Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 37
He ran to the water, and seated himself in a little boat which lay there, and which was painted red and white.
Who acts: Oie, little boat · What happens: run, seat, lie, paint · To what, where: Oie, little boat
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oie, little 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seated | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seated | cc |
| 8 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 seated | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 boat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boat | amod |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seated | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 boat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 painted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 painted | cc |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 painted | aux:pass |
| 21 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 painted | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 white | cc |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 red | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Oie | to the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result | ||||
| 2 | seat | past | Oie not said here | Oie | a little boat | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in boat=Location | |||
| 3 | lie | past | a little boat | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | paint | past · passive | red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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