Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 54

They were obliged to unload their cargo, and throw their chests and the dead walruses on the ice.

What happens: oblige, unload, throw · To what, where: sailors, cargo, chests, ice

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: 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obliged	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 unload	mark
5	unload	unload	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cargo	nmod:poss
7	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unload	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 throw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 throw	cc
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chests	nmod:poss
12	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 walruses	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 walruses	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 walruses	amod
16	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chests	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ice	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ice	det
19	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive	sailors = sailor		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	unload	to-infinitive	sailors's cargo		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cargo=Source
3	throw	infinitive	sailors's chests and the dead walruses	the ice	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent chest=Theme on ice=Destination

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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