Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 100
It fell with enormous force on the bowsprit, tearing it from the vessel, and the stern was lifted high above the water.
Who acts: sea · What happens: fall, tear, lift · To what, where: bowsprit, sea, stern, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 force | case |
| 4 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 force | amod |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bowsprit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bowsprit | det |
| 8 | bowsprit | bowsprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tearing | punct |
| 10 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fell | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tearing | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 vessel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vessel | det |
| 14 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tearing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lifted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lifted | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stern | det |
| 18 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lifted | aux:pass |
| 20 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | conj |
| 21 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 lifted | advmod |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lifted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | sea | the bowsprit | with enormous force | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bowsprit=Location | |||
| 2 | tear | gerund | sea not said here | sea | from the vessel | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from vessel=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | lift | past · passive | the stern | the water | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above water=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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