Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 55
The golden anchor forth they threw; Towards Denmark the west wind blew."
Who acts: golden anchor, Towards Denmark · What happens: throw, blow
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 (golden anchor, Towards Denmark), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 anchor | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 anchor | amod |
| 3 | anchor | anchor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 threw | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 threw | nsubj |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 blew | punct |
| 8 | Towards | Towards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Denmark | compound |
| 9 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 blew | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 11 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wind | compound |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Denmark | appos |
| 13 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 threw | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the golden anchor | forth property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | Towards Denmark | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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