Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 76
This thought passed through Jurgen's mind one day while they were out at sea, where his foster-father had been taken suddenly ill.
Who acts: thought, boats, Jurgen · What happens: pass, be, take, mind · To what, where: mind, sea, foster father
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 (thought, boats, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 5 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jurgen | case |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 sea | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sea | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sea | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 sea | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 taken | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 foster | punct |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 taken | aux:pass |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 25 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 26 ill | advmod |
| 26 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 taken | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | this thought | Jurgen's mind | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | boats = boat | sea | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect · passive | thought's foster father | ill property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | mind | Jurgen | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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