Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 40
A signal of distress was hoisted, but they were still fully a mile from the shore.
Who acts: Clara · What happens: hoist, be, signal · To what, where: signal, mile, shore, distress
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 (Clara), 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 signal | det |
| 2 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hoisted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 distress | case |
| 4 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 signal | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hoisted | aux:pass |
| 6 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mile | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 mile | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mile | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 mile | cop |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 mile | advmod |
| 12 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 14 mile | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mile | det |
| 14 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hoisted | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mile | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hoisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoist | past · passive | a signal of distress | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Clara | a mile | the shore | still | fully property | tree rules | |
| 3 | signal | distress | nom signal «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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