Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 13
The ferry-boat was on the opposite side of the bay.
Who acts: ferry boat · What happens: be · To what, where: opposite side
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ferry boat), 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 boat | det |
| 2 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boat | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ferry | punct |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 side | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bay | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bay | det |
| 12 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ferry boat | the opposite side | of the bay | 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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