Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 39
A plank in the ship gave way, and the water rushed in; the crew flew to the pumps, and did their best to stop the leak.
Who acts: plank, water, crew · What happens: give, rush in, fly, do, stop · To what, where: way, pumps, best, leak
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 (plank, water, crew), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 plank | det |
| 2 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 ship | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plank | nmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rushed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | nsubj |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gave | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 rushed | compound:prt |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crew | det |
| 16 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pumps | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pumps | det |
| 20 | pumps | pump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 did | cc |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flew | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 best | nmod:poss |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 did | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 stop | mark |
| 27 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 did | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 leak | det |
| 29 | leak | leak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stop | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a plank in the ship | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush in | participle | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the crew | the pumps | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pump=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the crew not said here | Clara's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | the crew not said here | the leak | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality leak=Eventuality |
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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