Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 98

Those on shore thought they heard cries for help from those on board, and could plainly distinguish the busy but useless efforts made by the stranded sailors.

Who acts: Those, waves · What happens: think, hear, distinguish, make, strand · To what, where: cries, busy efforts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Those, waves), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 thought	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 shore	case
3	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Those	nmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 help	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 board	case
13	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 those	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 distinguish	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 distinguish	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 distinguish	aux
17	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	18 distinguish	advmod
18	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 efforts	det
20	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 efforts	amod
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 useless	cc
22	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 busy	conj
23	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 distinguish	obj
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 efforts	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	28 sailors	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sailors	det
27	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sailors	amod
28	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 made	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Those			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear	past	waves = wave	cries	for help from those	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
3	distinguish	could	waves = wave not said here	the busy efforts	plainly property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute effort=Theme
4	make	participle		the busy efforts not said here	by the stranded sailors	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	strand	participle				tree rules

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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