Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 34
The sand-banks extend a whole mile from the shore, beneath the water, outside these banks; many ships could be seen that day, and with the aid of his telescope the old man thought he descried his own ship, the Karen Bronne.
Who acts: sand banks, old man, Merchant · What happens: extend, see, think, descry · To what, where: whole mile, shore, many ships, own ship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sand banks, old man, Merchant), 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 banks | det |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 banks | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sand | punct |
| 4 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 extend | nsubj |
| 5 | extend | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mile | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mile | amod |
| 8 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 extend | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mile | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mile | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 banks | punct |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 19 banks | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 banks | det |
| 19 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mile | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ships | amod |
| 22 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 extend | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thought | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thought | cc |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 aid | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 aid | det |
| 32 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thought | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 telescope | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 telescope | nmod:poss |
| 35 | telescope | telescope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 aid | nmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 37 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thought | nsubj |
| 39 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | advcl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 descried | nsubj |
| 41 | descried | descry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 thought | ccomp |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 ship | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ship | amod |
| 44 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 descried | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Bronne | punct |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Bronne | det |
| 47 | Karen | Karen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Bronne | compound |
| 48 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 ship | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 extend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | present | the sand banks | a whole mile and the water and this banks | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mile=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | could · passive | many ships | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the old man | with the aid of Merchant's telescope | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | descry | past | Merchant | Merchant's own ship | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus |
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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