Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 13
We grope and ferret about, and yet remain where we are; but the ball keeps turning, without emptying the ocean over us; the clod on which we move about, holds, and does not let us through.
Who acts: We, ball, clod · What happens: grope, ferret about, remain, be, keep, turn · To what, where: ocean, us
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ball, clod), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grope | nsubj |
| 2 | grope | grope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ferret | cc |
| 4 | ferret | ferret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grope | conj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 ferret | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remain | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remain | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 remain | advmod |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grope | conj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 remain | ccomp |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 where | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 where | cop |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 keeps | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ball | det |
| 16 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grope | parataxis |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 keeps | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 emptying | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 emptying | mark |
| 21 | emptying | empty | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 turning | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ocean | det |
| 23 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 emptying | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 emptying | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 move | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 clod | det |
| 28 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 move | nsubj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 move | obl |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 move | nsubj |
| 32 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keeps | conj |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 move | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 holds | punct |
| 35 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 move | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 let | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 let | cc |
| 38 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 let | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 let | advmod |
| 40 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 holds | conj |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 let | obj |
| 42 | through | through | ADV | _ | 40 let | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grope | present | We | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ferret about | present | We not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | We not said here | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | the ball | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | turn | gerund | the ball not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | empty | gerund | the ball not said here | the ocean | over us | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ocean=Source | |||
| 8 | move about | present | the clod | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | hold | present | the clod not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | not let | present · do-support | the clod not said here | us | through property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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