Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 41

They often warned him to beware of the sharks, which seize the best swimmer, draw him down, and devour him; but such was not to be Jurgen's fate.

Who acts: people, sharks · What happens: warn, beware, seize, draw down, devour, not be · To what, where: Jurgen, best swimmer, such fate

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 (people, sharks), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warned	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 warned	advmod
3	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 warned	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 beware	mark
6	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 warned	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sharks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sharks	det
9	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beware	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seize	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 seize	nsubj
12	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sharks	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swimmer	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 swimmer	amod
15	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seize	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 draw	punct
17	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beware	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 draw	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 draw	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 devour	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 devour	cc
22	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 beware	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 devour	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 fate	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 fate	cc
26	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fate	amod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fate	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 fate	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	33 fate	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 fate	cop
31	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 fate	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 Jurgen	case
33	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warned	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 warned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	people		Jurgen	often property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beware	to-infinitive	people not said here			of the sharks	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	seize	present	the sharks	the best swimmer			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swimmer=Theme
4	draw down	infinitive	people not said here	Jurgen			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	devour	infinitive	people not said here	Jurgen			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	not is a	past		Jurgen's such fate			tree rules

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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