Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 37
I come from the polar seas," he said; "I have been on the Bear's Island with the Russian walrus-hunters.
Who acts: I, hand · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: polar seas, Island · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hand), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 seas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seas | det |
| 5 | polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seas | amod |
| 6 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seas | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Island | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Island | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Island | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Island | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 Island | cop |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bear | det |
| 18 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Island | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Bear | case |
| 20 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 hunters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hunters | det |
| 23 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hunters | amod |
| 24 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hunters | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 walrus | punct |
| 26 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | the polar seas | with the Russian walrus hunters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | hand | the polar seas not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sea=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I | the Bear's Island | tree rules |
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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