Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 116
By the seashore lived fishermen; but she could not get so far, she was so ill.
Who acts: seashore · What happens: live, not get, be · To what, where: fishermen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seashore), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 seashore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seashore | det |
| 3 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ill | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ill | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ill | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 ill | advmod |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the seashore | fishermen | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fisherman=Location | ||||
| 2 | not get | could | seashore | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | seashore | ill property | 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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