Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 98
Shipwreck followed upon shipwreck on the reefs between Old Skagen and the Hunsby dunes.
Who acts: Shipwreck · What happens: follow · To what, where: reefs
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 (Shipwreck), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:11108): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shipwreck | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 shipwreck | case |
| 4 | shipwreck | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 reefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reefs | det |
| 7 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 followed | obl |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 Skagen | case |
| 9 | Old | Old | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Skagen | compound |
| 10 | Skagen | Skagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reefs | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dunes | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dunes | det |
| 13 | Hunsby | Hunsby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dunes | compound |
| 14 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Skagen | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Shipwreck | the reefs between Old Skagen and the Hunsby dunes | upon shipwreck | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shipwreck=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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