Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 102

It was a woman; the sailors said that she was quite dead, but the women thought they saw signs of life in her, so the stranger was carried across the sand-hills to the fisherman's cottage.

Who acts: sea, sailors, stern, women · What happens: be, say, think, see, carry, sign · To what, where: woman, signs, stranger, sand hills, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sailors, stern, women), 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	4 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sailors	det
7	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 woman	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 dead	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 dead	advmod
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thought	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 thought	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 women	det
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thought	nsubj
18	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thought	ccomp
21	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 life	case
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 signs	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 carried	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 carried	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stranger	det
29	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 carried	aux:pass
31	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
32	across	across	ADP	_	36 hills	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hills	det
34	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hills	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 sand	punct
36	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 carried	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	41 cottage	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fisherman	det
39	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cottage	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 fisherman	case
41	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carried	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sea	a woman			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the sailors				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	stern			dead property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	the women				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see	past	women = woman	signs of life in stern			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
6	carry	past · passive		the stranger	the sand hills	to the fisherman's cottage	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cottage=Destination
7	sign			life in stern			nom sign «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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