Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 55
Then I sprinkled snow over them, and left them in their crushed boats to drift southward, and to taste salt water.
Who acts: I · What happens: sprinkle, leave, crush, drift, taste · To what, where: snow, sailors, crushed boats, salt water
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), 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 sprinkled | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkled | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 boats | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boats | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 boats | amod |
| 14 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 drift | mark |
| 16 | drift | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | advcl |
| 17 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 16 drift | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taste | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 taste | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 taste | mark |
| 21 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkled | conj |
| 22 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | compound |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taste | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | past | I | snow | then | over sailors = sailor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent snow=Theme over they=Destination | ||
| 2 | leave | past | I not said here | sailors = sailor | sailors's crushed boats | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in boat=Location | |||
| 3 | crush | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | drift | to-infinitive | I not said here | southward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | taste | to-infinitive | I not said here | salt water | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme water=Attribute |
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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