Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 9
At last the verdict was given: "Foundered at sea--all lost."
What happens: give, founder, lose · To what, where: last verdict, sea, all
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 verdict | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 verdict | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 verdict | det |
| 4 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Foundered | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Foundered | punct |
| 9 | Foundered | founder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Foundered | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 given | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the last verdict | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: at verdict=Asset | |||||
| 2 | founder in a quote | participle | sea | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle · passive | all | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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