Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 45
As Hjalmar sailed by, he caught hold of one side of the sugar heart, and held it fast, and the princess held fast also, so that it broke in two pieces.
Who acts: Hjalmar, heart · What happens: sail, catch, hold, break · To what, where: heart, princess, two pieces
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 (Hjalmar, heart), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 Hjalmar | case |
| 2 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | obl |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 sailed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caught | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 side | nummod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | compound |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 held | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 held | cc |
| 18 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 held | obj |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 held | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 princess | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 princess | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | conj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 princess | acl |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 held | advmod |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 held | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 broke | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 broke | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 broke | nsubj |
| 32 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 pieces | case |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 pieces | nummod |
| 35 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 broke | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | as Hjalmar | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | Hjalmar | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | Hjalmar not said here | of one side of the sugar heart | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | heart | fast property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | participle | the princess not said here | fast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | past | heart | two pieces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |
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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