Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 78
They were only a few oars' strokes from the reef, and Jurgen sprang from his seat and stood up in the bow.
Who acts: boats, Jurgen · What happens: be, spring, stand up · To what, where: strokes, reef, seat, bow
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strokes | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strokes | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 strokes | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oars | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oars | amod |
| 6 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strokes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 oars | case |
| 8 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 reef | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reef | det |
| 11 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 strokes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprang | cc |
| 14 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sprang | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strokes | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 seat | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 seat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprang | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sprang | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 stood | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bow | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bow | det |
| 24 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strokes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | boats = boat | a few oars's strokes | the reef | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spring | past | Jurgen | Jurgen's seat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stand up | past | Jurgen not said here | the bow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bow=Location |
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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