Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 35
Yes! certainly, there she was, sailing homewards with Clara and Jurgen on board.
Who acts: Bronne · What happens: sail · To what, where: homewards, board
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 (Bronne), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 sailing | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 9 sailing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 certainly | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 sailing | expl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sailing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sailing | aux |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailing | punct |
| 9 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sailing | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Clara | case |
| 12 | Clara | Clara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 homewards | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Jurgen | cc |
| 14 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Clara | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 board | case |
| 16 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sailing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · progressive | Bronne | homewards | board; there | with Clara and Jurgen; certainly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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