Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 41
Some fishing boats were in sight, but they were too far off to be of any use.
Who acts: fishing boats, Clara · What happens: be · To what, where: sight
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 (fishing boats, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 boats | det |
| 2 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boats | compound |
| 3 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sight | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sight | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sight | case |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 off | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 off | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 off | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 off | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 off | advmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 sight | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 use | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 use | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 use | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 use | det |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 off | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | some fishing boats | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Clara | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Clara not said here | of any use | tree rules |
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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