Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 24
In April a ship was to start for Norway, and Jurgen was to sail in it.
Who acts: ship, Jurgen · What happens: be · To what, where: ship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, Jurgen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 April | case |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 start | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 start | mark |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Norway | case |
| 9 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sail | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sail | cc |
| 12 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sail | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sail | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sail | mark |
| 15 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 start | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sail | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 start | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a ship | april | for Norway; start property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Jurgen | ship | sail property | 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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