Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 54

He began to feel his strength decreasing, but he was only a few cable lengths' distance from the shore, and help was coming, for a boat was approaching him.

Who acts: Jurgen, strength, help, boat · What happens: begin, feel, decrease, be, come, approach · To what, where: strength, distance, shore, Jurgen

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 (Jurgen, strength, help, boat), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 feel	mark
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 strength	nmod:poss
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	obj
7	decreasing	decrease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 strength	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 distance	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 distance	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 distance	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 distance	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	18 distance	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lengths	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lengths	amod
15	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lengths	compound
16	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 distance	nmod:poss
17	'	's	PART	_	16 lengths	case
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 shore	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shore	det
21	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 distance	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 coming	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 coming	cc
24	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 coming	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coming	aux
26	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 began	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 approaching	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 approaching	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 boat	det
30	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 approaching	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 approaching	aux
32	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 coming	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 approaching	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	past	Jurgen			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	Jurgen not said here	Jurgen's strength		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
3	decrease	gerund	Jurgen's strength not said here			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	is a	past	Jurgen	a few cable lengths's distance	the shore	tree rules
5	come	past · progressive	help			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	approach	past · progressive	a boat	Jurgen		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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