Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 23

The prison was in a town at a great distance, and the wind was contrary for going there by sea; but it would not take half an hour to get across the bay, and another quarter of an hour would bring them to Norre-Vosborg, the great castle with ramparts and moat.

Who acts: prison, wind, it, quarter · What happens: be, go, not take, get, bring · To what, where: town, bay, fishermen, Norre

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 (prison, wind, it, quarter), 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 prison	det
2	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 distance	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distance	amod
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 contrary	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 contrary	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 contrary	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 contrary	cop
16	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	parataxis
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 contrary	advcl
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 going	advmod
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 sea	case
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 take	advmod
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 town	parataxis
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 hour	det:predet
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hour	det
30	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 get	mark
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	advcl
33	across	across	ADP	_	35 bay	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bay	det
35	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bring	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bring	cc
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 quarter	det
39	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 hour	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hour	det
42	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 quarter	nmod
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 bring	aux
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 take	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Norre	case
47	Norre	Norre	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obl
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 Vosborg	punct
49	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Norre	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 castle	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 castle	det
52	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 castle	amod
53	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Norre	appos
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 ramparts	case
55	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 castle	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 moat	cc
57	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 ramparts	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 town	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the prison			a town		at a great distance	tree rules
2	is	past	the wind					contrary property	tree rules
3	go	gerund	the wind not said here			there		by sea	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by sea=Location
4	not take	would	it				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	get	to-infinitive				the bay			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across bay=Destination
6	bring	would	another quarter of a hour	fishermen = fisherman	Norre and Vosborg				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to norre=Destination

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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