Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 109

Fragments of the wreck and pieces of wood were washed ashore; they were all that remained of the vessel.

Who acts: fragments · What happens: wash, remain · To what, where: Fragments

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 (fragments), 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	Fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 washed	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 wreck	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wreck	det
4	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fragments	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pieces	cc
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wreck	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pieces	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 washed	aux:pass
10	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	10 washed	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 remained	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 remained	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 all	cop
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 they	det
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 remained	nsubj
17	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 washed	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 vessel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vessel	det
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remained	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past · passive		Fragments of the wreck and pieces of wood				ashore property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	remain	past	fragments = fragment					of the vessel	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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