Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 40
"The eels went into the bay, and the young ones begged leave to go a little farther out. '
Who acts: eels, young ones · What happens: go, beg, leave · To what, where: bay
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: who acts (eels, young ones), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eels | det |
| 3 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bay | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bay | det |
| 7 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 leave | advcl |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leave | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 farther | advmod |
| 19 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 go | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 farther | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | the eels | the bay | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bay=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | participle | the young ones not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | the young ones | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the young ones not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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