Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 4
He encountered bad weather, heavy seas, unkindness, and hard men--such were his experiences, for he became ship-boy.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: encounter, be, become · To what, where: bad weather, such experiences, ship boy
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 (Jurgen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 encountered | nsubj |
| 2 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weather | amod |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 encountered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seas | punct |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seas | amod |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weather | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 unkindness | punct |
| 9 | unkindness | unkindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weather | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 men | cc |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 encountered | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 experiences | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 experiences | amod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 experiences | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 experiences | nmod:poss |
| 18 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 became | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 became | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 encountered | conj |
| 23 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boy | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ship | punct |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 became | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | Jurgen | bad weather and heavy seas and unkindness | hard men and Jurgen's such experiences obl | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weather=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Jurgen not said here | Jurgen's such experiences | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Jurgen | ship boy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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