Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 97
It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her.
Who acts: sea · What happens: be, render, rush in, make · To what, where: assistance, vessel, clean breach
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 render | mark |
| 5 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 render | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 rushed | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 vessel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vessel | det |
| 14 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 making | punct |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 breach | det |
| 18 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 breach | amod |
| 19 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 making | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | render | to-infinitive | assistance | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rush in | past | the sea | the vessel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon vessel=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the sea not said here | a clean breach | over ocean | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breach=Product |
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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