Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 61
Thus it is there today and thus it was long ago, when the happy pair were sailing in the beautiful ship.
Who acts: heather, happy pair · What happens: be, sail · To what, where: beautiful ship
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 (heather, happy pair), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sailing | cc |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 ago | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ago | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ago | cop |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 ago | advmod |
| 11 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 sailing | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sailing | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 sailing | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pair | amod |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailing | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sailing | aux |
| 18 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 today | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ship | amod |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | heather | there | thus property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | heather | ago, long, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail | past · progressive | the happy pair | the beautiful ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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