Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 80
The boat came safely across the reef to land; but the evil thought remained in his heart, and roused up every little fibre of bitterness which he remembered between himself and Martin since they had known each other.
Who acts: boat, bitterness · What happens: come, land, remain, rouse up, remember, know · To what, where: reef, evil, heart, little fibre, boats
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 (boat, bitterness), 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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 reef | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reef | det |
| 7 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 land | mark |
| 9 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reef | acl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 remained | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 remained | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 evil | det |
| 13 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 remained | aux:pass |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 heart | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remained | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 roused | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 roused | cc |
| 21 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 roused | compound:prt |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 fibre | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fibre | amod |
| 25 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 roused | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bitterness | case |
| 27 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fibre | nmod |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 remembered | nsubj |
| 30 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bitterness | acl:relcl |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 himself | case |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 remembered | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Martin | cc |
| 34 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 himself | conj |
| 35 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 38 known | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 known | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 known | aux |
| 38 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 remembered | advcl |
| 39 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 38 known | obj |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 each | fixed |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boat | the reef | safely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across reef=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | land | to-infinitive | the boat not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | past · passive | the evil | father's heart | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | rouse up | participle | every little fibre of bitterness | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Patient | |||||
| 5 | remember | past | bitterness | between father | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | know | past · perfect · passive | boats = boat | 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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