Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 7
The sea-cale bloomed here and there in the sand as he passed.
Who acts: sea · What happens: bloom, pass · To what, where: sea cale, sand
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 (sea), 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 cale | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cale | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sea | punct |
| 4 | cale | cale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cale | acl |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bloomed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 here | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sand | det |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bloomed | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 passed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bloomed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | participle | the sea cale not said here | the sand; here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sand=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | sea | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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