Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 36
That is to say, the water had to come forward so far.
Who acts: That, water · What happens: be, have, come forward · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, water), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 say | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 come | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | That | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come forward | to-infinitive | the water not said here | far, forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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