Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 85
They were caught by carloads, and many of them were either thrown back into the sea or left to lie on the beach.
Who acts: carloads · What happens: catch, throw back, leave, lie · To what, where: fishes, many, sea, beach
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 (carloads), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 carloads | case |
| 5 | carloads | carload | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 caught | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thrown | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thrown | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 many | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 12 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 thrown | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lie | mark |
| 21 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 left | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beach | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beach | det |
| 24 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lie | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | carloads | fishes = fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw back | past · passive | many of fishes | into the sea result; either property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | the beach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location |
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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