Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 146
"If God spares our lives and grants us a fair wind, we are going to Gronmud, near Falster," said the captain; and he asked the name of the student who wished to go with him.
Who acts: God, we, captain, student · What happens: spare, go, say, ask, wish, name · To what, where: lives, Gronmud, name, student · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God, we, captain, student), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spares | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 spares | mark |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spares | nsubj |
| 4 | spares | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | advcl |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lives | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spares | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grants | cc |
| 8 | grants | grant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lives | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 lives | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wind | amod |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spares | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Gronmud | case |
| 18 | Gronmud | Gronmud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Falster | punct |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 Falster | case |
| 21 | Falster | Falster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Gronmud | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 captain | det |
| 26 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 asked | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asked | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 asked | nsubj |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 name | det |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 asked | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 student | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 student | det |
| 35 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | nmod |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 wished | nsubj |
| 37 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 student | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 go | mark |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wished | xcomp |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 go | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | God | our lives us and grants | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Recipient wind=Asset | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | Gronmud and Falster | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gronmud=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | God | the name of the student | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | the student | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the student not said here | with God | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | name | the student | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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