Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 17

As soon as the boat touched the shore, the men sprang on board, and before he was aware of it, they had bound his hands with a rope.

Who acts: men, man · What happens: touch, spring, be, bind · To what, where: shore, board, people

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 (men, man), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 touched	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 boat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obl
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shore	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sprang	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sprang	nsubj
12	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 board	case
14	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sprang	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bound	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bound	cc
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 aware	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 aware	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 aware	cop
20	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bound	advcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 aware	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 aware	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bound	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bound	aux
26	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 touched	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bound	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 rope	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rope	det
31	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bound	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past		the shore		as the boat; soon property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme
2	spring	past	the men		board		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on board=Trajectory
3	is	past	man			of boat; aware property	tree rules
4	bind	past · perfect · passive		people		with a rope	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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