Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 1
The child that was to have been reared amid wealth and luxury was cast into the world, washed by the sea among the sand-hills to share the fate and hardships of the poor.
What happens: be, cast, wash, share · To what, where: child, world, fate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 reared | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reared | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 reared | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reared | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 reared | aux:pass |
| 8 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 child | acl:relcl |
| 9 | amid | amid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wealth | amod |
| 10 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reared | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 luxury | cc |
| 12 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wealth | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cast | aux:pass |
| 14 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cast | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 washed | punct |
| 19 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cast | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 washed | obl |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 hills | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hills | det |
| 25 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hills | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 sand | punct |
| 27 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 washed | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 share | mark |
| 29 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 washed | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fate | det |
| 31 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 share | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hardships | cc |
| 33 | hardships | hardship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fate | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 poor | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 poor | det |
| 36 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hardships | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect · passive | the child not said here | rear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast | past · passive | the child | the world | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into world=Product | ||||
| 3 | wash | participle | by the sea; among the sand hills | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | the fate and hardships of the poor | 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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