Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 122
Weak as she was, he carried her to the ship, where he got a rating for it from the captain.
Who acts: last, man · What happens: be, carry, get · To what, where: last, ship, rating, captain
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 (last, man), 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 | Weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Weak | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Weak | parataxis |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 got | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rating | det |
| 17 | rating | rating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 captain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 captain | det |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Weak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | last | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | man | last | the ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to ship=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | past | man | a rating | the captain | for rating | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rating=Theme for it=Asset from captain=Source |
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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