Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 29
His period of service on board the ship came to an end, and the vessel lay once more at Ringkjobing in Jutland.
Who acts: period, vessel · What happens: come, lie · To what, where: end, Ringkjobing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, vessel), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 period | nmod:poss |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 service | case |
| 4 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 6 | board | board | ADP | _ | 8 ship | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 service | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vessel | det |
| 16 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 lay | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Ringkjobing | case |
| 21 | Ringkjobing | Ringkjobing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Jutland | case |
| 23 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ringkjobing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | quantity's period of service on the ship | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the vessel | Ringkjobing in Jutland | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ringkjobing=Location |
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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