Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 9
The poor ship boy was not permitted to land, but on the last day of their stay he managed to get ashore.
Who acts: boy, parents · What happens: not permit, land, manage, get, stay · To what, where: poor ship boy
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 (boy, parents), 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 | 4 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 permitted | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 permitted | advmod |
| 7 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 land | mark |
| 9 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 permitted | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 managed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 managed | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 managed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 stay | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stay | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 managed | nsubj |
| 20 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 permitted | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 managed | xcomp |
| 23 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | past · passive | the poor ship boy | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | manage | past | boy | day | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | boy not said here | ashore property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | stay | parents = parent | nom stay «act intransitive»: 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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