Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 59
Some fishermen, coming with a boat, seized them and dragged them into it.
Who acts: fishermen · What happens: come, seize, drag · To what, where: waves, boat
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 (fishermen), 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 | 2 fishermen | det |
| 2 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fishermen | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fishermen | punct |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seized | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dragged | cc |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragged | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dragged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | some fishermen not said here | with a boat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | some fishermen | waves = wave | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drag | past | some fishermen not said here | waves = wave | boat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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