Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 72
The boat is lifted high into the air, so that the keel is seen from the shore; the next moment nothing can be seen, mast, keel, and people are all hidden--it seems as though the sea had devoured them; but in a few moments they emerge like a great sea animal climbing up the waves, and the oars move as if the creature had legs.
Who acts: it, boats, great sea animal, oars, creature · What happens: lift, see, mast, keel, hide, seem · To what, where: boat, air, keel, shore, nothing, people
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 (it, boats, great sea animal, oars), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | aux:pass |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lifted | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 seen | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 keel | det |
| 13 | keel | keel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lifted | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 nothing | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nothing | amod |
| 22 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nothing | compound |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lifted | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mast | punct |
| 28 | mast | mast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 keel | punct |
| 30 | keel | keel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 mast | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hidden | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hidden | cc |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hidden | aux:pass |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 hidden | advmod |
| 36 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lifted | conj |
| 37 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 seems | punct |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 seems | nsubj |
| 39 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hidden | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 devoured | advmod |
| 41 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 45 devoured | mark |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sea | det |
| 43 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 devoured | aux |
| 45 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 seems | ccomp |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 devoured | obj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 emerge | punct |
| 48 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 emerge | cc |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 moments | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 moments | det |
| 51 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 moments | amod |
| 52 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 emerge | obl |
| 53 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 emerge | nsubj |
| 54 | emerge | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 55 | like | like | ADP | _ | 59 animal | case |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 animal | det |
| 57 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 animal | amod |
| 58 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 animal | compound |
| 59 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 emerge | obl |
| 60 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 59 animal | acl |
| 61 | up | up | ADP | _ | 60 climbing | compound:prt |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 waves | det |
| 63 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 60 climbing | obj |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 move | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 move | cc |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 oars | det |
| 67 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 move | nsubj |
| 68 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 69 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 73 had | mark |
| 70 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 73 had | mark |
| 71 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 72 creature | det |
| 72 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 had | nsubj |
| 73 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 68 move | advcl |
| 74 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 73 had | obj |
| 75 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | present · passive | the boat | the air | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | present · passive | the keel | the shore | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | can · passive | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mast | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | keel | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | hide | present · passive | people | all property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | seem | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | devour | past · perfect · passive | the sea | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | emerge | present | boats = boat | moment | like a great sea animal | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 10 | climb up | gerund | a great sea animal not said here | the waves | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wave=Theme | ||||
| 11 | move | present | the oars | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 12 | have | past | the creature | legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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