Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 38
I sat and slept at the helm of their ship, as they sailed away from North Cape.
Who acts: I, seas · What happens: sit, sleep, sail away · To what, where: helm, North Cape
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, seas), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 slept | cc |
| 4 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 helm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 helm | det |
| 7 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slept | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helm | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sailed | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 sailed | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sailed | nsubj |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 sailed | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Cape | case |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Cape | compound |
| 18 | Cape | Cape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sailed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sleep | past | I not said here | the helm of seas's ship | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sail away | past | seas = sea | North Cape | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from cape=Trajectory |
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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