Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 74
A wrong order given in front of the reef--the slightest hesitation--and the boat would be lost.
What happens: give, lose · To what, where: wrong order, front, boat
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10899): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 order | det |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 order | amod |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 order | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 reef | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reef | det |
| 9 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 front | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 hesitation | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hesitation | det |
| 12 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 hesitation | amod |
| 13 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 order | appos |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lost | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boat | det |
| 17 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lost | aux:pass |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 order | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | a wrong order not said here | front of the reef | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | would · passive | the boat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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