Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 96
She drove towards the shore, struck on the second reef, and remained fixed.
Who acts: ocean · What happens: drive, strike, remain, fix · To what, where: shore, second reef
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 (ocean), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shore | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 reef | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reef | det |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 reef | amod |
| 11 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remained | cc |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 15 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 remained | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | ocean | the shore | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | strike | participle | the shore not said here | the second reef | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on reef=Location | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | ocean not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fix | participle | ocean not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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