Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 64
The North Sea might foam over them and they would not be disturbed.
Who acts: North Sea · What happens: foam, not disturb · To what, where: churches
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 (North Sea), 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 Sea | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sea | compound |
| 3 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 foam | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 foam | aux |
| 5 | foam | foam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 foam | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disturbed | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 disturbed | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 disturbed | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 13 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 foam | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 foam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | might | the North Sea | over churches = church | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | ||||
| 2 | not disturb | would · passive | churches = church | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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