Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 42
The wind blew towards the land, the tide was in their favour, but it was all useless; the ship could not be saved.
Who acts: wind, tide · What happens: blow, be, not save · To what, where: favour, ship
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 (wind, tide), 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 | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 favour | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tide | det |
| 9 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 favour | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 favour | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 favour | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 favour | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 useless | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 useless | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 useless | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 useless | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 useless | advmod |
| 19 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 saved | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 saved | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 saved | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 saved | aux:pass |
| 26 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 useless | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | towards the land | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards land=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the tide | Clara's favour | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | tide | all, useless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not save | could · passive | the ship | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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