Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 47
These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was the same luxury, and the same parting thought naturally arose:
Who acts: words, same parting · What happens: describe, be, think, arise · To what, where: vessel, Spain, same luxury · 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 (words, same parting), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 describe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 describe | aux |
| 4 | aptly | aptly | ADV | _ | 5 describe | advmod |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vessel | det |
| 7 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Spain | case |
| 9 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 luxury | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 here | case |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 luxury | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 luxury | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 luxury | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 luxury | amod |
| 16 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 parting | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 parting | amod |
| 21 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 luxury | advcl |
| 23 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 24 arose | advmod |
| 24 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | would | this words | the vessel | Spain | aptly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the same luxury | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the same parting | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arise | past | naturally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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