Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 14
Jurgen called to the ferry-man, and the latter came over with his boat.
Who acts: latter · What happens: call, come over · To what, where: Jurgen, ferry man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (latter), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ferry | punct |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 latter | det |
| 11 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 boat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Jurgen | the ferry man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come over | past | the latter | with Jurgen's boat; over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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