Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 108

"Alas! how terrible to see The gallant bark sink rapidly."

What happens: see · To what, where: gallant bark sink

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: 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	_	5 terrible	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 terrible	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 terrible	advmod
5	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 terrible	advcl
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sink	det
9	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sink	amod
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sink	compound
11	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
12	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 terrible	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	to-infinitive		the gallant bark sink				rapidly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sink=Stimulus

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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