Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 61
She was pale and lifeless; they laid her in the boat, and rowed as quickly as possible to the shore.
Who acts: girl, fishermen · What happens: be, lay, row · To what, where: girl, 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 (girl, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pale | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pale | cop |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lifeless | cc |
| 5 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pale | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 laid | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | nsubj |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pale | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laid | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rowed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rowed | cc |
| 15 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laid | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 quickly | advmod |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 rowed | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 possible | mark |
| 19 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rowed | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 possible | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lay | past | fishermen = fisherman | girl | the boat | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in boat=Destination | |||
| 4 | row | past | fishermen = fisherman not said here | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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