Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 57
Jurgen had come in contact with this; the tide had driven him against it with great force.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: come, drive · To what, where: contact, tide
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), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 contact | case |
| 5 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 contact | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 driven | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tide | det |
| 10 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 driven | aux |
| 12 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driven | obj |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driven | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 force | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 force | amod |
| 18 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Jurgen | contact with this | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in contact=Location | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect · passive | the tide | against contact; with great force | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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