Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 40
He was full of life, and knew how to swim, to tread water, and to turn over and tumble in the strong tide.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: be, know, swim, tread, turn over, tumble · To what, where: water
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 | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knew | cc |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | conj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 swim | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 swim | mark |
| 11 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tread | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 tread | mark |
| 14 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 swim | conj |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tread | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turn | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 turn | mark |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 full | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 turn | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tumble | cc |
| 22 | tumble | tumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 turn | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tide | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tide | det |
| 25 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tide | amod |
| 26 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tumble | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen | of life; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Jurgen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tread | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | water | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | turn over | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tumble | present | Jurgen not said here | in the strong tide | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tide=Attribute |
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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