Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 52

Then I thought of my own game; I began to blow, and set my own ships, the great icebergs sailing, so that they might crush the boats.

Who acts: I, great icebergs, icebergs · What happens: think, begin, blow, set, sail, crush · To what, where: own ships, boats

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, great icebergs, icebergs), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 thought	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 game	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 game	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 blow	mark
12	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 blow	conj
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ships	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ships	amod
18	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 set	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 icebergs	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 icebergs	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 icebergs	amod
22	icebergs	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ships	appos
23	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 icebergs	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crush	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 crush	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crush	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 crush	aux
29	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 set	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boats	det
31	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 crush	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I		then	of my own game	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	I				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	blow	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	set	infinitive	I not said here	my own ships			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ship=Result
5	sail	gerund	the great icebergs not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	crush	might	icebergs = iceberg	the boats			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

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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