Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 31
The ship set sail for Christiansand in Norway, and as the wind was favourable it soon arrived there.
Who acts: wind · What happens: set, be, arrive
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 (wind), 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 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sail | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sail | amod |
| 4 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Christiansand | case |
| 6 | Christiansand | Christiansand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sail | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Norway | case |
| 8 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Christiansand | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 favourable | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 favourable | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 favourable | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favourable | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 favourable | cop |
| 15 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sail | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 arrived | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 arrived | advmod |
| 18 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 favourable | parataxis |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 arrived | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the wind | favourable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | wind | there | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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