Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 28
One day another ship was wrecked on the coast, and among other things a chest filled with valuable flower bulbs was washed ashore.
What happens: wreck, fill, wash · To what, where: ship, coast, chest
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrecked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 6 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrecked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 washed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 washed | cc |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 washed | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chest | det |
| 16 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 chest | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 bulbs | case |
| 19 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bulbs | amod |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bulbs | compound |
| 21 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 filled | obl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 washed | aux:pass |
| 23 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wrecked | conj |
| 24 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 23 washed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wrecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | past · passive | another ship | the coast | day | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a chest not said here | with valuable flower bulbs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bulb=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | wash | past · passive | a chest | among other things; ashore property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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