Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 3
I went at once to sea in a ship bound for the north.
Who acts: I · What happens: go, bind · To what, where: ship
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ship | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 north | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 north | det |
| 13 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bound | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | a ship | to sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bind | participle | a ship not said here | for the north | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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